How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present hosting marketplace are provided by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market offer one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web space hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

200,000 "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The hosting "variety" and the web site 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 hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a normal person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 site hosting vendors 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 brand names all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled most hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect No.1: An imbecilic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed 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. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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 undeniably are!

Shortcoming No.2: The same e-mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly increase their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too fatally.

Negative Aspect Number Three: A total absence of domain manipulation interfaces

Do we have to mention the total deficiency of a contemporary domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a huge shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Many user login places (min two, max three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting corporation. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction tool (especially made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the enthusiastic clients can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting service providers:

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