How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the present web space hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying strictly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting market furnish one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/web space hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Assume you are only a normal person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the current site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly covered most web page hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A moronic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra careful 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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)

Are you growing nonplussed? We positively are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The very same email folder configuration

The email folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too badly.

Downside Number 3: A sheer shortage of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we have to point out the complete absence of a contemporary domain management interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a great problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Weak Point No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (particularly devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the keen customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software solution; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP menus to memorize... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to learn each of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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