How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present-day web page hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet providing precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting market provide absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

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

The web space hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an average chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brands around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled most webspace hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number One: A stupid domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed 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. Verify for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder system 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 name)
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 name)
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 growing confused? We categorically are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The same e-mail folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.

Predicament No.3: A sheer lack of domain name manipulation sections

Do we need to bring up the absolute lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an enormous inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Many login places (minimum two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for another login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the billing system (principally devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the devoted clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: 120+ hosting CP menus to grasp... quickly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to learn each of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting corporations:

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