How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web page hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting market provide the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web site hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an ordinary person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any site hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k webspace hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web page hosting brand names around the world will offer you the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on today's web site hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled all hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number One: An imbecilic domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to delete entirely 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 growing baffled? We clearly are!

Inconvenience Number Two: The same mail folder configuration

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Weakness No.3: A total absence of domain name administration interfaces

Do we have to refer to the absolute lack of a modern domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" interface at all. That's a big problem. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Shortcoming No.4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, max three)

How about the demand for another login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration system? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web space hosting firm. At times, based on the invoicing transaction system (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the keen users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting Control Panel menus to memorize... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the site hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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