How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market provide the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k site hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a normal fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k web space hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique site hosting brands in the world will give you the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled most web page hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside No.1: A dumb domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name 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)
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 growing perplexed? We definitely are!

Weak Side Number 2: The very same email folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly strengthen their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too seriously.

Weak Point Number Three: A complete lack of domain manipulation options

Do we need to point out the absolute absence of a modern domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" section at all. That's a major drawback. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Numerous login places (min 2, maximum three)

What about the need for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting company. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (especially conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the keen users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP sections to get to know... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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