How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the contemporary web page hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small business segment, which provides a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offers on the whole hosting market offer the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "webspace hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The website hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting option you can select? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 site hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web site hosting brands all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably met most hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Inconvenience Number One: A foolish domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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 name)

Are you becoming perplexed? We undoubtedly are!

Weakness Number Two: The very same email folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too fatally.

Negative Side Number 3: A complete lack of domain management options

Do we need to mention the absolute shortage of a modern domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Sign Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the need for an additional login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management section? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting corporation. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the earnest customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting CP areas to pick up... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting distributors:

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