How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which generates an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/web space hosting CP alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a normal person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brand names worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present web hosting market is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates 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 something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied all web space hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback No.1: A stupid domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how marvelous 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 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)
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 getting confused? We definitely are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The very same email folder structure

The mail folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly enhance their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too harshly.

Downside Number Three: A sheer absence of domain manipulation options

Do we need to point out the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a great predicament. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Drawback Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web page hosting company. At times, on the basis of the billing platform (especially meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the devoted clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than 120 web hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting firms:

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