How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which provides a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace offer strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/site hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200k "web site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an average bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k web space hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different site hosting brand names in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met most web page hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number 1: A moronic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)

Are you growing perplexed? We undeniably are!

Negative Side Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too badly.

Downside No.3: An utter deficiency of domain name management interfaces

Do we need to bring up the sheer absence of a modern domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" menu at all. That's an enormous predicament. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Weakness No.4: Numerous login locations (min 2, max three)

What about the need for another login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web space hosting supplier. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction tool (principally tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the keen clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than 120 web page hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 areas inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting corporations:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...