How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which generates a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offers on the entire web hosting market provide strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web space hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an ordinary person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web space hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web page hosting brands across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on today's web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied all web page hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign No.1: A laughable domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to remove fully 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. Examine for yourself how good 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 name)

Are you getting confused? We undeniably are!

Negative Point No.2: The very same electronic mail folder system

The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too severely.

Weakness Number Three: A sheer deficiency of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to point out the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a huge weakness. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Weak Side Number Four: Multiple login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management system? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web space hosting vendor. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction system (especially conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the ardent clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a fine idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting providers:

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