How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the current website hosting market are furnished by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an average person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web space hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands worldwide will give you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled most web site hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament No.1: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

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

Are you getting puzzled? We unquestionably are!

Predicament No.2: The same email folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Weakness Number Three: A complete deficiency of domain name administration GUIs

Do we have to refer to the sheer deficiency of a modern domain name management interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a vast disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Shortcoming No.4: Many login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based site hosting corporation. Now and then, based on the billing transaction tool (particularly built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the eager users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting providers:

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