How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on today's web space hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which provides an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet offering precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire web page hosting market supply one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "webspace hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web space hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a regular guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web space hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web site hosting brands in the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the current site hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met most web site hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness No.1: A laughable domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 name)
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 becoming bewildered? We undeniably are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The same electronic mail folder system

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too severely.

Weak Side No.3: A sheer shortage of domain manipulation options

Do we need to bring up the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a considerable weakness. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Weak Point No.4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting vendor. Sometimes, based on the invoicing platform (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the devoted clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management GUI; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the CP. It's an excellent idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting providers:

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