How does cpanel hosting work?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on today's web site hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting market provide the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a regular guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brand names all over the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the contemporary webspace hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

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

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

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps answered most hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Side Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder setup

If you have two 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 name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. Decide for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 name)
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)
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 getting perplexed? We unquestionably are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement

The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.

Inconvenience Number Three: An absolute absence of domain manipulation sections

Do we have to mention the entire deficiency of a modern domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Predicament Number Four: Numerous login locations (min 2, max 3)

What about the demand for an additional 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 page hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (particularly conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than 120 webspace hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web site hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting service providers:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...