How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the contemporary web page hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting market furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web page hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brands around the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present-day web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly fulfilled all web space hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name 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 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 puzzled? We definitely are!

Weakness No.2: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too severely.

Problem Number Three: An utter absence of domain management options

Do we need to cite the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a major predicament. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Predicament Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum two, max three)

How about the demand for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management software? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web site hosting provider. Now and then, based on the invoicing tool (particularly meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the zealous users can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management section; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Downside Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel sections to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting firms:

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