How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the current web site hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small business niche, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offers on the whole site hosting marketplace offer the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web space hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The site hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a normal chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k web site hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names worldwide will give you the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps satisfied all website hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the server, since 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 name 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. Verify for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 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 doubtlessly are!

Negative Side Number 2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too harshly.

Weak Side Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain administration menus

Do we have to bring up the total absence of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a gigantic inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Point Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the necessity for another login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing tool (particularly intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management menu; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting companies:

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