How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the present web site hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire site hosting marketplace provide precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/Control Panel choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web space hosting brands worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present-day web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered all webspace hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point No.1: A dumb domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated 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. See for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 name)
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 perplexed? We clearly are!

Weak Side Number Two: The same mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.

Negative Point No.3: A total lack of domain management options

Do we have to refer to the absolute lack of a modern domain administration user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" menu at all. That's a considerable weakness. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Sign Number 4: Many login places (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the need for an additional login to access the billing, domain and tech support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting company. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (especially created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the avid users can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain administration tool; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: 120+ web hosting CP areas to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting vendors:

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