How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the contemporary hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The site hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a regular person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brand names worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on today's web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably answered most web hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number 1: A dumb domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, 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 web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. Observe for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 becoming puzzled? We undeniably are!

Downside No.2: The very same e-mail folder system

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.

Predicament No.3: A sheer absence of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we need to bring up the absolute lack of a contemporary domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" section at all. That's a great weakness. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Drawback Number 4: Multiple user login places (min two, max three)

What about the need for an extra login to access the billing, domain name and technical support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web site hosting vendor. At times, based on the billing transaction platform (especially tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the earnest clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty CP departments to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the web site hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting providers:

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