How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on today's site hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market furnish absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web page hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web space hosting brand names all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present-day web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly met most site hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point No.1: An idiotic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to remove 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 domain names are quite simple to delete on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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. Observe for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 name)
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)
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 disorientated? We unquestionably are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The same e-mail folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.

Predicament Number 3: A thorough deficiency of domain administration interfaces

Do we have to cite the thorough lack of a modern domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a considerable weakness. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Weak Side Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for another login to use the billing, domain name and tech support management menu? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting service provider. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing system (particularly devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the avid customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management menu; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number Five: 120+ hosting Control Panel areas to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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