How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offers on the present-day web site hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace provide literally the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/site hosting CP choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200,000 "site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web space hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brands around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied all web site hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem No.1: An idiotic domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be very careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are set up 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 located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain 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 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)

Are you becoming nonplussed? We undeniably are!

Problem Number Two: The same e-mail folder system

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too badly.

Negative Side Number Three: A thorough lack of domain name administration options

Do we have to bring up the thorough lack of a contemporary domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" menu at all. That's a gigantic drawback. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Sign Number Four: Many login places (min two, maximum 3)

How about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and technical support management tool? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel webspace hosting distributor. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction tool (principally meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the keen customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to pick up... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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