How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on the contemporary web site hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which generates an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire site hosting marketplace provide strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/site hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "web space hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are only an average chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k site hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web page hosting brands worldwide will give you the very same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the contemporary site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met all web hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number 1: A dumb domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be very attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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 disorientated? We certainly are!

Drawback Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly fortify their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too severely.

Shortcoming Number 3: An utter shortage of domain name management tools

Do we need to point out the total deficiency of a contemporary domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a vast drawback. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...

Inconvenience Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management software solution? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based site hosting vendor. Now and then, based on the invoicing system (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the zealous customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management menu; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting CP sections to pick up... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting vendors:

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