How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the present site hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web site hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting market offer one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Assume you are just a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k webspace hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on today's web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered most web page hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number 1: A stupid domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 becoming confused? We definitely are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The same electronic mail folder structure

The email folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too badly.

Weakness Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain management options

Do we need to point out the total lack of a modern domain management menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" tool at all. That's a big inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Downside No.4: Numerous login places (min two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based site hosting corporation. Now and then, based on the billing system (especially created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the earnest customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain name administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: 120+ CP sections to pick up... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the CP. It's a fabulous idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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