How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offerings on the entire site hosting marketplace supply strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

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

The site hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands in the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on today's webspace hosting market is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled most website hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament No.1: An idiotic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, since 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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)

Are you growing disorientated? We doubtlessly are!

Weak Side No.2: The same email folder configuration

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too severely.

Downside No.3: A thorough shortage of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to refer to the sheer lack of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a gigantic weakness. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Downside Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based site hosting firm. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing platform (particularly developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the avid users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament No.5: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the site hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting service providers:

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