How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present website hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offers on the entire hosting market furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web space hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an average person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting option you can select? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brands around the world will give you strictly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably answered all hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number One: A dumb domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
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 growing nonplussed? We surely are!

Weakness Number Two: The same email folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Weakness No.3: A total deficiency of domain name manipulation options

Do we have to refer to the utter absence of a modern domain management platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" tool at all. That's a gigantic inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Shortcoming No.4: Multiple user login places (min 2, max 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain and tech support management menu? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. At times, depending on the invoice transaction tool (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the eager users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than 120 hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ sections inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting corporations:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...