How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting market are provided by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market offer literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

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

The website hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any site hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 site hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique site hosting brand names worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on today's web site hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied most web page hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number One: An idiotic domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are situated 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 situated 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. Discover for yourself how fabulous 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 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)
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 name)

Are you getting perplexed? We unquestionably are!

Weakness Number 2: The same electronic mail folder setup

The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly enhance their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.

Downside Number Three: A thorough lack of domain name management user interfaces

Do we have to refer to the absolute lack of a modern domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" menu at all. That's a major downside. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Weakness No.4: Multiple login places (min 2, maximum three)

How about the demand for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web space hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the billing system (principally devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the devoted clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management section; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: More than 120 web site hosting CP areas to memorize... fast

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting distributors:

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