How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the present webspace hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting market furnish precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The website hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Assume you are just an ordinary chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website making processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k site hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique site hosting brands around the world will give you precisely the same cPanel CP and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on today's website hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps covered all web space hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number 1: A stupid domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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)

Are you getting disorientated? We definitely are!

Negative Sign No.2: The same mail folder system

The email folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly reinforce their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too badly.

Disadvantage Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we have to refer to the thorough shortage of a modern domain name administration platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Numerous login places (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting distributor. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction platform (particularly designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the devoted customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting CP departments to get to know... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting distributors:

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