How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting market offer one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web page hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an ordinary guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique site hosting brands all over the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly fulfilled most web page hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem No.1: A laughable domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be very careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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)
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 becoming confused? We unquestionably are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The same electronic mail folder system

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too severely.

Problem Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain name management options

Do we need to refer to the absolute absence of a contemporary domain management platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a great weakness. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Weak Side Number Four: Numerous login locations (min two, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain and technical support management software? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting firm. At times, depending on the invoicing system (principally built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the enthusiastic customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback No.5: More than 120 web site hosting CP sections to grasp... fast

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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