How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on today's web space hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, 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 web site hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/web space hosting CP alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The site hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web page hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands in the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps covered all hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number 1: A stupid domain folder configuration

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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain 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)
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 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)

Are you growing perplexed? We undeniably are!

Negative Point Number Two: The very same email folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too harshly.

Negative Sign No.3: A thorough lack of domain name administration GUIs

Do we need to mention the complete shortage of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Negative Side Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the need for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based site hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction system (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than 120 site hosting Control Panel departments to learn... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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