How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present site hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering exactly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offers on the whole web hosting market supply exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names in the world will give you literally the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on today's web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met most website hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming Number One: A laughable domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 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 name)

Are you growing confused? We undoubtedly are!

Drawback Number 2: The very same email folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too gravely.

Shortcoming Number Three: A total deficiency of domain administration GUIs

Do we need to cite the complete lack of a modern domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Many login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management software solution? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based webspace hosting provider. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction system (principally created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the avid clients can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain name management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP sections to get to know... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web space hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting corporations:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...