How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the present-day site hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small business segment, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole hosting market offer absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200k "site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web space hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brand names all over the world will give you the very same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on today's web page hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied all web hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number One: A laughable domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed 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. Observe for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain 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 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 definitely are!

Problem No.2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly strengthen their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too gravely.

Weak Side Number 3: A total lack of domain name management tools

Do we need to refer to the thorough absence of a modern domain management interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a gigantic problem. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Weak Point Number 4: Numerous login places (min 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web space hosting distributor. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the eager clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management system; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: 120+ web space hosting CP sections to memorize... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the site hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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