How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on today's site hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which provides an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web page hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web page hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different site hosting brand names in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably answered all web hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 remove on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 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)
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 growing disorientated? We absolutely are!

Weak Point No.2: The same mail folder arrangement

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly increase their belief in God when managing the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too gravely.

Negative Sign Number Three: A complete absence of domain name manipulation tools

Do we have to point out the entire lack of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a big downside. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...

Inconvenience Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to use the billing, domain and tech support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web site hosting firm. At times, on the basis of the invoicing platform (particularly designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the devoted customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP menus to learn... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 areas inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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