How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on today's webspace hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace offer exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The webspace hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a normal bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands across the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on today's website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps answered most hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number 1: A foolish domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 growing perplexed? We absolutely are!

Weakness Number Two: The same mail folder arrangement

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Disadvantage Number 3: A total lack of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to bring up the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" section at all. That's a huge drawback. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Negative Point Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain and technical support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel site hosting company. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (especially meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the ardent users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP menus to grasp... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting suppliers:

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