How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the contemporary hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire web space hosting market furnish strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The web site hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brands around the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present web space hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably met all site hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Aspect Number 1: A dumb domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 easy to remove on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder setup is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 name)

Are you getting confused? We doubtlessly are!

Weak Side Number Two: The very same mail folder system

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.

Negative Side Number 3: A complete absence of domain management GUIs

Do we have to cite the thorough shortage of a modern domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Negative Side Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for another login to access the billing transaction, domain and technical support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting vendor. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction platform (principally developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the zealous clients can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: More than 120 web site hosting Control Panel areas to learn... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web space hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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