How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on today's web page hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which provides a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting marketplace provide literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any site hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present website hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied most webspace hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive 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). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name 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)
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)

Are you becoming baffled? We surely are!

Disadvantage No.2: The very same email folder arrangement

The electronic mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.

Negative Point Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain name management options

Do we need to cite the absolute lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an immense problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Predicament No.4: Numerous user login places (min 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for another login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction platform (especially made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the ardent customers can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting suppliers:

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