How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the current web site hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace offer the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

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

The site hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an average bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any site hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k web space hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different site hosting brands across the world will give you literally the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered most hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder setup 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)

Are you becoming puzzled? We positively are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The very same email folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too gravely.

Disadvantage Number Three: A total absence of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we need to bring up the complete lack of a contemporary domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a colossal inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Negative Sign Number 4: Numerous user login places (min 2, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to access the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction system (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting CP areas to grasp... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the CP. It's a great idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting corporations:

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