How does cpanel web hosting work?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present-day webspace hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which supplies a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying strictly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web space hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an average person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on today's site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps answered all web space hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point No.1: A foolish domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed 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. Check for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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)

Are you getting perplexed? We clearly are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The same mail folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too severely.

Negative Point Number Three: An absolute deficiency of domain administration menus

Do we have to point out the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a colossal predicament. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Problem Number Four: Numerous user login places (min two, max 3)

How about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management software? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web page hosting supplier. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing tool (particularly meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the eager customers can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than 120 web site hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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