How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on today's web space hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a regular fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any site hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 site hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web page hosting brand names in the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the current web hosting market is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps answered all web page hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Predicament Number 1: A foolish domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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)
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 bewildered? We undeniably are!

Weak Point Number Two: The very same e-mail folder arrangement

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly increase their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too badly.

Negative Side Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to bring up the total deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a mammoth disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Weak Point Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and tech support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting distributor. At times, based on the invoicing transaction system (principally devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the earnest customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management menu; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than 120 hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the web space hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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