How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the present webspace hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting marketplace supply the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The website hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web space hosting brand names all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present-day webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled all web space hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Sign Number One: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to erase fully 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 name)

Are you getting bewildered? We undeniably are!

Negative Point Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder structure

The email folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too irreparably.

Problem Number 3: A thorough shortage of domain name manipulation sections

Do we need to mention the entire shortage of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an enormous downside. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Negative Point Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the demand for an extra login to access the billing, domain name and technical support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web page hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction system (especially conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the keen users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP departments to pick up... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ sections inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting providers:

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