How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary web site hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting market furnish the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an ordinary bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 site hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brand names all over the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the current webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met most site hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: An idiotic domain name folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are created 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 located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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)
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 getting bewildered? We categorically are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The very same mail folder system

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly increase their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.

Negative Aspect Number 3: An utter absence of domain name management menus

Do we have to cite the complete shortage of a modern domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a huge inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Negative Side Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web page hosting distributor. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction platform (especially intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the zealous users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: 120+ site hosting Control Panel menus to learn... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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