How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the present-day web space hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace provide precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "web site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The site hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a regular chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k web page hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique webspace hosting brands around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present-day hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably covered most hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect No.1: A dumb domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the hosting server, because 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 name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete 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 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)
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 disorientated? We positively are!

Downside Number Two: The very same e-mail folder structure

The mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Negative Point No.3: An entire absence of domain name management sections

Do we need to point out the total lack of a modern domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an enormous disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Drawback No.4: Many login places (min 2, max three)

What about the demand for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain and tech support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel site hosting service provider. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction platform (particularly intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the ardent clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than 120 web site hosting CP sections to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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