How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the contemporary web space hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting marketplace provide literally the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Assume you are only a normal bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web page hosting brands in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly met all webspace hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number One: A laughable domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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 domain names, please. Determine for yourself how great 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 getting disorientated? We certainly are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The same email folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too severely.

Inconvenience Number 3: A complete lack of domain management interfaces

Do we need to point out the absolute absence of a contemporary domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an enormous problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Weakness Number 4: Many user login places (minimum two, max 3)

What about the demand for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel site hosting corporation. At times, on the basis of the invoicing platform (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the enthusiastic users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management software solution; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting CP menus to learn... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting providers:

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