How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offerings on today's webspace hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which provides a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offers on the whole web site hosting market supply the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/web page hosting CP option. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web page hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a normal chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names around the world will give you the very same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly met all web page hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming Number 1: A laughable domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 name)
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 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 becoming baffled? We clearly are!

Negative Point Number Two: The same e-mail folder system

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly enhance their belief in God when managing the email folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.

Negative Aspect Number 3: A total deficiency of domain name management user interfaces

Do we need to refer to the absolute absence of a contemporary domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" tool at all. That's a major drawback. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Drawback Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the need for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web page hosting provider. Sometimes, based on the billing platform (particularly made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the zealous users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: 120+ hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web site hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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