How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offers on today's web page hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting market provide the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The website hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different webspace hosting brands across the world will give you precisely the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly covered most site hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: A foolish domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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 getting disorientated? We clearly are!

Shortcoming No.2: The same email folder configuration

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too gravely.

Negative Aspect No.3: A thorough absence of domain management interfaces

Do we need to bring up the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's an immense predicament. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Downside No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, max 3)

What about the need for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel site hosting service provider. At times, based on the invoicing transaction platform (principally designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the earnest customers can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management section; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness No.5: More than 120 website hosting CP areas to become familiar with... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting vendors:

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