How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the contemporary web space hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire site hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web site hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique site hosting brand names all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly fulfilled most web space hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: An idiotic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 domain names, please. Decide for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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 perplexed? We doubtlessly are!

Weak Point Number Two: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly enhance their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.

Negative Aspect No.3: An entire lack of domain management interfaces

Do we have to mention the thorough deficiency of a modern domain management interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" menu at all. That's a vast disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Predicament No.4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain name and tech support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web space hosting distributor. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction tool (principally meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the ardent clients can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than 120 site hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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