How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present-day web page hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace supply exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200,000 "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present-day hosting market is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense stroke 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 sides of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably answered most web page hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: A stupid domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
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 becoming confused? We undeniably are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same email folder setup

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly increase their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too seriously.

Predicament Number Three: An entire lack of domain management interfaces

Do we have to refer to the absolute absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" tool at all. That's a huge problem. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Inconvenience No.4: Many login places (min two, maximum 3)

How about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the billing, domain and technical support management platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting supplier. Now and then, based on the billing transaction tool (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the earnest users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management GUI; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than 120 site hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting service providers:

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