How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace offer precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The site hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any site hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web space hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

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

Weak Side No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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 becoming confused? We absolutely are!

Shortcoming Number Two: The same e-mail folder configuration

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.

Weakness Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain administration interfaces

Do we need to mention the total deficiency of a modern domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Inconvenience Number Four: Numerous user login places (min 2, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting service provider. Now and then, depending on the invoicing tool (particularly made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the ardent customers can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: More than 120 website hosting CP areas to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 areas inside the site hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting vendors:

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