How does cpanel-based hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the whole site hosting market furnish precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web space hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an average bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brand names in the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the contemporary hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably covered all web hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number 1: A stupid domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, 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 web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 name)
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)

Are you growing confused? We undoubtedly are!

Weak Side No.2: The same mail folder setup

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.

Drawback No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain name management tools

Do we have to cite the entire lack of a modern domain management GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a gigantic shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...

Shortcoming No.4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the invoicing, domain and tech support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting corporation. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction tool (especially meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the devoted clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel menus to learn... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...