How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web site hosting market supply literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The webspace hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an average person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k webspace hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web space hosting brand names worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the contemporary hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered most webspace hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point No.1: A stupid domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be very cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 bewildered? We undoubtedly are!

Drawback Number 2: The same email folder configuration

The email folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly reinforce their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to fuck things up too severely.

Downside No.3: A total lack of domain name manipulation tools

Do we need to refer to the total absence of a modern domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's an enormous downside. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Shortcoming Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min two, max three)

How about the demand for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting supplier. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction platform (particularly created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the keen users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than 120 web site hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting companies:

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