How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the present-day web space hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web site hosting marketplace offer the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/Control Panel choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web page hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k site hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different site hosting brand names across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled all web space hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number 1: A laughable domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to remove completely 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 simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain 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 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 growing nonplussed? We absolutely are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly increase their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too gravely.

Predicament Number 3: A total deficiency of domain administration menus

Do we have to cite the sheer shortage of a modern domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a gigantic predicament. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Problem Number 4: Multiple login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the need for an additional login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (principally made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the enthusiastic users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: 120+ site hosting CP areas to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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