How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small business segment, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web site hosting marketplace supply one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/CP option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "web page hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web site hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a normal chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any site hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brands in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps answered most webspace hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament No.1: A foolish domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, 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 server, because they all are created 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 bewildered? We surely are!

Weak Side Number Two: The very same mail folder system

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.

Weakness Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain administration interfaces

Do we have to point out the entire absence of a contemporary domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a huge downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Negative Point No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management software? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel site hosting service provider. Now and then, based on the invoicing tool (particularly meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the ardent clients can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting CP areas to grasp... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web site hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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