How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel site hosting offers on the present hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which provides an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offers on the whole site hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brand names all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the contemporary webspace hosting market is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met most hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number One: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, because 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 located 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. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 growing baffled? We categorically are!

Weak Point Number Two: The same email folder structure

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly fortify their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.

Downside Number 3: A sheer absence of domain administration menus

Do we have to cite the entire shortage of a contemporary domain name management interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a gigantic problem. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Disadvantage Number Four: Multiple user login places (min 2, max 3)

What about the necessity for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web site hosting vendor. At times, on the basis of the billing tool (particularly tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the devoted users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting CP departments to get familiar with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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