How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are generated by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which generates an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting market offer strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/site hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web site hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brands all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present-day website hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly covered most site hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new 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 remove on the server, since they all are located 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 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 name)

Are you becoming perplexed? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Point Number Two: The very same email folder configuration

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too badly.

Negative Sign No.3: An utter shortage of domain administration user interfaces

Do we need to cite the entire shortage of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a vast problem. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the need for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based site hosting vendor. Now and then, based on the billing tool (particularly meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the enthusiastic clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Shortcoming Number 5: More than 120 web site hosting Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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