How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the contemporary site hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet offering absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web space hosting CP choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "web page hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any site hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k web page hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the contemporary web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly covered all web space hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain name 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 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 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 getting perplexed? We clearly are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly enhance their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.

Weak Point Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain management GUIs

Do we have to mention the utter deficiency of a modern domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a gigantic shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Predicament Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management software? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web site hosting supplier. At times, depending on the invoicing tool (particularly created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the eager users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting CP departments to grasp... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web site hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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