How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present site hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which provides an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting marketplace supply literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web page hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The site hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different site hosting brands around the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met all web hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number 1: A foolish domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder system 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 getting confused? We positively are!

Shortcoming No.2: The very same email folder configuration

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly reinforce their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too seriously.

Weak Point Number Three: An utter absence of domain name administration tools

Do we have to cite the complete absence of a modern domain management platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a mammoth predicament. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Downside No.4: Many user login places (min two, max three)

How about the need for an extra login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (particularly meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the ardent clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel menus to memorize... fast

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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