How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the present web page hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which supplies an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting market offer the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "web space hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any site hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different site hosting brand names all over the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied most web space hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience No.1: An idiotic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web hosting 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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 bewildered? We definitely are!

Downside Number 2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too severely.

Negative Sign Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain name management interfaces

Do we need to refer to the sheer deficiency of a modern domain management platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" menu at all. That's a vast downside. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Predicament No.4: Many user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the need for an additional login to utilize the billing, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based site hosting distributor. Occasionally, based on the invoicing system (principally intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the earnest users can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to pick up... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to learn each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting service providers:

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