How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present-day web page hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

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

The web hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a regular fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different site hosting brand names around the world will offer you the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on today's web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly answered most web hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to erase 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). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 growing puzzled? We categorically are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same email folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too fatally.

Inconvenience Number 3: An absolute absence of domain administration sections

Do we have to point out the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an enormous disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Negative Aspect No.4: Numerous login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the demand for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain and technical support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel site hosting company. At times, based on the invoice transaction tool (particularly built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the enthusiastic clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management system; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel areas to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web space hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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