How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on today's website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the whole web site hosting marketplace offer precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an average fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web page hosting brand names across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably satisfied all hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming No.1: A laughable domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 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 positively are!

Downside No.2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too harshly.

Weakness Number 3: A total deficiency of domain manipulation options

Do we have to cite the total shortage of a modern domain management platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" section at all. That's a gigantic downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Negative Side Number 4: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (especially meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the eager users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain management GUI; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than 120 web hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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