How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace are provided by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web page hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an average chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different webspace hosting brands worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on today's web site hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably answered all web site hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming No.1: A foolish domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how excellent 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 name)
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 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 getting perplexed? We doubtlessly are!

Disadvantage Number Two: The same email folder structure

The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly increase their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Negative Aspect No.3: A total shortage of domain name manipulation sections

Do we have to bring up the absolute shortage of a modern domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a big weakness. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Predicament Number 4: Many user login locations (min two, max 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to access the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting provider. At times, depending on the billing system (particularly created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the devoted clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than a hundred and twenty CP areas to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web site hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting distributors:

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