How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offerings on the present site hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which provides a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet providing precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting market provide absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any site hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web space hosting brand names across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on today's webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably met most site hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside No.1: A foolish domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 getting nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!

Predicament No.2: The very same mail folder structure

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly increase their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.

Problem No.3: A total absence of domain name administration GUIs

Do we have to cite the utter shortage of a contemporary domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an enormous weakness. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Inconvenience Number Four: Multiple login places (min 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web page hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the invoicing system (principally created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the devoted customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management system; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than 120 web site hosting CP sections to memorize... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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