How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present-day web page hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire web space hosting marketplace offer exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/CP option. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web page hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brands all over the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the current web page hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps satisfied all web site hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number One: A stupid domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be very careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 domain names, please. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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)
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)

Are you getting bewildered? We unquestionably are!

Negative Side Number Two: The very same email folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too irreparably.

Disadvantage No.3: A total shortage of domain management tools

Do we need to mention the thorough lack of a contemporary domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" tool at all. That's a major inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Weak Side Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, max three)

What about the need for an additional login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management software? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web site hosting corporation. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction tool (principally built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the avid customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the web space hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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