How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the contemporary hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire web space hosting market offer one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

200,000 "web space hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web site hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an average person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web site hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different webspace hosting brands across the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly satisfied most web hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side No.1: A dumb domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be very attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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)
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)

Are you getting baffled? We definitely are!

Weakness Number 2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.

Disadvantage Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain administration menus

Do we have to point out the entire lack of a contemporary domain management tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" menu at all. That's a considerable downside. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Numerous user login places (min 2, max three)

What about the need for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction tool (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the ardent clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management menu; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: 120+ web site hosting CP menus to become familiar with... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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