How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are generated by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole web site hosting market supply exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/Control Panel choice. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "web page hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web site hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a regular chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web site hosting brand names worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered all web page hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign No.1: An idiotic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 getting confused? We clearly are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The same mail folder arrangement

The email folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too badly.

Weak Point Number 3: A total lack of domain name administration menus

Do we need to point out the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a major inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...

Predicament Number 4: Many login locations (minimum two, max 3)

What about the need for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel site hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (especially made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the avid clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web page hosting CP. It's a fine idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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