How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the current hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire hosting market supply precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/web page hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web site hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a normal chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique site hosting brands across the world will give you exactly the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present site hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied all website hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to delete 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). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how terrific 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 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)
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 confused? We certainly are!

Negative Point Number Two: The same email folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly strengthen their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too badly.

Negative Point No.3: An absolute shortage of domain manipulation options

Do we have to cite the absolute lack of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a major downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Shortcoming No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, max three)

What about the demand for an additional login to make use of the billing, domain and tech support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel site hosting distributor. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (principally invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the enthusiastic users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain name management software platform; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting CP departments to pick up... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a fine idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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