How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the present hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting market provide absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web page hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting option you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied most hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to remove 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 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 disorientated? We surely are!

Negative Side Number Two: The same email folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly reinforce their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too gravely.

Weakness Number Three: An utter lack of domain manipulation options

Do we need to cite the total lack of a modern domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a great disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Weakness Number 4: Numerous login locations (min two, max three)

What about the necessity for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management software? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting company. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing system (principally created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the ardent users can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting distributors:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...