How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day webspace hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting marketplace provide the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/CP choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

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

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site making processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 website hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brand names worldwide will offer you exactly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present-day web site hosting market is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly covered most web hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number One: An idiotic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain 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 name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
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 getting baffled? We clearly are!

Problem Number Two: The same email folder system

The mail folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Negative Point No.3: A total shortage of domain manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to bring up the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" tool at all. That's a big shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management software? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting service provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction system (especially intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the avid users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: 120+ web space hosting Control Panel menus to learn... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting CP. It's a great idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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