How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offerings on the current webspace hosting marketplace are generated by a very insignificant business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market offer the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/webspace hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The website hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an ordinary chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k website hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met all web hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Shortcoming No.1: A laughable domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 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 growing baffled? We certainly are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The very same mail folder system

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly fortify their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.

Negative Point Number Three: An absolute deficiency of domain manipulation options

Do we have to refer to the utter deficiency of a modern domain management tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a colossal inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Problem Number 4: Numerous user login places (min two, max three)

What about the necessity for another login to utilize the billing, domain and tech support management section? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction tool (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the eager clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management software; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel areas to learn... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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