How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offers on today's web site hosting marketplace are provided by a very insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the site hosting offerings on the entire site hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web site hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a regular fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web space hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the current site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably fulfilled most web hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback No.1: A stupid domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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 name)

Are you growing confused? We clearly are!

Predicament Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly enhance their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too seriously.

Problem Number Three: A sheer deficiency of domain management sections

Do we have to bring up the absolute lack of a modern domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a vast inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...

Shortcoming Number 4: Numerous login locations (min two, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel webspace hosting vendor. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (principally conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the devoted customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting suppliers:

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