How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on the current web site hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which generates a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering absolutely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace provide strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The website hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique site hosting brands worldwide will give you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present webspace hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met all web page hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Downside Number One: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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)
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 puzzled? We certainly are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The very same email folder setup

The mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly enhance their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too seriously.

Weak Side Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain name administration menus

Do we need to bring up the utter absence of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" interface at all. That's an immense drawback. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Weakness Number 4: Many login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the need for an extra login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web space hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the billing tool (especially made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the earnest clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the site hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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