How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present-day web page hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which provides a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offers on the whole web site hosting market offer one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named

The web hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an ordinary bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web site hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique site hosting brand names in the world will give you literally the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the current web space hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly answered all web page hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point No.1: A dumb domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 placed 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 located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 baffled? We absolutely are!

Predicament Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The email folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly reinforce their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.

Negative Sign Number Three: A total deficiency of domain name management menus

Do we have to bring up the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a big drawback. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Weakness Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, max 3)

How about the need for an additional login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management software solution? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting firm. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction platform (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the enthusiastic users can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management software; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty Control Panel menus to grasp... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to learn each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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