How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present web page hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering exactly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole website hosting market provide one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

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

The site hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a regular person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web space hosting brands around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present-day web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps met most hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number One: A foolish domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Observe for yourself how terrific 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)
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 nonplussed? We clearly are!

Problem No.2: The same mail folder system

The email folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to fuck things up too severely.

Problem Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain management menus

Do we have to bring up the complete shortage of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an enormous problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Negative Side No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the demand for another login to use the billing transaction, domain and technical support management system? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting company. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting suppliers:

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