How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present web page hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace supply the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The site hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any site hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 website hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web page hosting brands across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present-day hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled most web site hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign No.1: A moronic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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. See for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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 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 name)

Are you getting confused? We surely are!

Negative Sign No.2: The very same email folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too fatally.

Drawback Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain name management tools

Do we have to refer to the absolute absence of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a considerable problem. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Point Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoicing, domain and tech support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web space hosting distributor. Occasionally, based on the invoicing system (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the keen users can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain management section; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: 120+ site hosting Control Panel sections to learn... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting service providers:

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