How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present web page hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting market furnish one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web page hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a normal bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web site hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web site hosting brands across the world will give you the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly answered all webspace hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number 1: A laughable domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to delete 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 delete on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 becoming perplexed? We certainly are!

Inconvenience No.2: The same e-mail folder structure

The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to fuck things up too badly.

Disadvantage Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain name administration interfaces

Do we have to point out the utter deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a great inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Many user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration system? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web site hosting firm. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (particularly meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting corporations:

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