How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on the present site hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which supplies an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace provide the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The site hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web site hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly satisfied most web space hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number 1: A stupid domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic 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)
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!

Negative Side Number 2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly increase their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too fatally.

Negative Side Number Three: A complete lack of domain name manipulation menus

Do we need to cite the utter lack of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an enormous drawback. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction system (principally designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the devoted clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP areas to memorize... promptly

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

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

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