How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on today's webspace hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies a great number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace provide strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The webspace hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site development processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly fulfilled most webspace hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Drawback Number 1: A dumb domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web server, because 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 is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 growing baffled? We clearly are!

Weakness No.2: The same electronic mail folder setup

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly fortify their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.

Negative Sign Number 3: A thorough lack of domain administration interfaces

Do we have to mention the thorough lack of a modern domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" menu at all. That's an immense weakness. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Negative Point Number 4: Many login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the need for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain and tech support management system? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting vendor. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing tool (particularly meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the devoted clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: 120+ web hosting CP departments to grasp... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting companies:

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