How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the present-day site hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web page hosting market offer literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an ordinary bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web space hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web site hosting brands in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably answered all web space hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point No.1: A ludicrous domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be very watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new 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 erase on the web hosting server, since they all are created 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 name)
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 getting perplexed? We unquestionably are!

Disadvantage No.2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too badly.

Weak Side Number Three: An absolute absence of domain administration menus

Do we need to refer to the thorough absence of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a great inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Many user login places (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (especially designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the enthusiastic users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to memorize... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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