How does cpanel web hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a type of a small business segment, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market provide one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200k "web page hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web page hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a regular guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any site hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web site hosting brands around the world will give you the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the current hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel web space hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps answered most web space hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number One: A laughable domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra careful not to erase completely 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 domain names are quite simple to delete on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 name)

Are you becoming baffled? We categorically are!

Disadvantage No.2: The same email folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly fortify their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too gravely.

Weak Point Number 3: A thorough deficiency of domain name management GUIs

Do we have to point out the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain administration platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" tool at all. That's an enormous predicament. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...

Negative Point No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum two, max three)

What about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting corporation. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing platform (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the zealous clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weakness Number Five: More than 120 hosting CP areas to get to know... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting suppliers:

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