How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly 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 site hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace offer one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "web page hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The website hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the current website hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

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

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably met all site hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number One: An idiotic domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web server, because 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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 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 confused? We undeniably are!

Negative Side No.2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly increase their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too fatally.

Predicament No.3: An utter lack of domain manipulation menus

Do we need to refer to the total absence of a modern domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" interface at all. That's a vast problem. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Weak Side No.4: Many login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting company. At times, based on the billing platform (especially made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the earnest users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: 120+ web page hosting CP menus to get familiar with... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting vendors:

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