How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which provides an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet offering exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace provide one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "web site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique webspace hosting brands all over the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present-day web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered most web page hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming No.1: A ludicrous domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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)
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 growing nonplussed? We clearly are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly increase their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Weak Point No.3: An entire lack of domain name administration menus

Do we have to bring up the complete absence of a modern domain name administration user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" tool at all. That's an immense predicament. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Inconvenience No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the need for an extra login to use the billing, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting company. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction platform (principally created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the avid clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number Five: 120+ web page hosting CP areas to memorize... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting corporations:

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