How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on the present-day hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the entire website hosting market furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web space hosting CP option. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "web site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an average guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site making processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web page hosting brands worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the contemporary web space hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably covered most web space hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number 1: A laughable domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 name)
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 baffled? We absolutely are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The same electronic mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.

Weak Point Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain name management GUIs

Do we need to refer to the utter deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" section at all. That's a big shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

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

How about the need for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web page hosting corporation. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction tool (particularly designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the zealous clients can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting CP menus to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the Control Panel. It's a great idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting service providers:

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