How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the present-day web site hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which generates a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The website hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an average bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web page hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web site hosting brand names in the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered most web hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number One: A stupid domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed 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. See for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 name)

Are you becoming baffled? We undeniably are!

Problem Number Two: The same email folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Shortcoming No.3: A total shortage of domain administration interfaces

Do we need to mention the total shortage of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" tool at all. That's a major downside. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Weak Point Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web page hosting provider. Now and then, based on the billing transaction system (particularly tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the zealous users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management menu; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting firms:

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