How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present website hosting market are furnished by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting marketplace supply the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web page hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a regular guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brand names worldwide will give you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly answered all hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are situated 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 name)
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 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 becoming baffled? We undoubtedly are!

Predicament Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The mail folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too gravely.

Negative Aspect No.3: An absolute shortage of domain name manipulation sections

Do we have to refer to the absolute shortage of a modern domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" interface at all. That's a gigantic inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Downside Number Four: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web site hosting vendor. At times, based on the invoicing tool (especially designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the earnest clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting CP areas to learn... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting suppliers:

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