How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the contemporary webspace hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which provides a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting market offer absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The web hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an average chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web page hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique webspace hosting brand names worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel CP and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on today's site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied all hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: A moronic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to remove fully 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). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 domain names, please. Verify for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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 growing bewildered? We surely are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The same mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly fortify their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too gravely.

Inconvenience No.3: A thorough lack of domain administration tools

Do we have to bring up the utter absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" menu at all. That's a huge downside. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, max three)

How about the need for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting provider. Now and then, based on the billing system (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the earnest clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management system; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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