How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200,000 "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The site hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an average person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different site hosting brand names in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present-day webspace hosting market is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly covered most web site hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside No.1: A ludicrous domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very watchful 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 simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 name)

Are you getting confused? We clearly are!

Weak Side Number 2: The very same mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too fatally.

Disadvantage No.3: An entire shortage of domain name management menus

Do we have to cite the entire lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a mammoth downside. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Many user login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the necessity for another login to access the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration system? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel site hosting firm. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing system (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the earnest customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web page hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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