How does cpanel hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offers on today's web site hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market furnish the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a regular chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different website hosting brands worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the current hosting market is... Period.

The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps answered most site hosting industry demands. 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...

Drawback Number One: A ludicrous domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 getting confused? We undoubtedly are!

Disadvantage No.2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Weakness Number 3: An absolute absence of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we need to mention the complete shortage of a modern domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a vast problem. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Weakness No.4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. Now and then, on the basis of the billing system (especially conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the devoted customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Downside No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting CP departments to pick up... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting firms:

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