How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the present website hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offers on the whole web page hosting marketplace furnish the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The web space hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an average chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled most webspace hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point No.1: An idiotic domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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 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 name)

Are you growing puzzled? We unquestionably are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The same email folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too severely.

Inconvenience No.3: An entire absence of domain name administration interfaces

Do we need to bring up the utter absence of a modern domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a mammoth downside. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Drawback Number Four: Many user login places (min two, maximum three)

What about the demand for another login to make use of the billing, domain and technical support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting firm. At times, based on the invoicing system (principally built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the keen customers can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration platform; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP departments to grasp... rapidly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting distributors:

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