How does cpanel web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel site hosting offers on the present web page hosting market are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web page hosting offers on the entire web page hosting market furnish one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/CP option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "web site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The web site hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an average bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brand names worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present-day web page hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied most web hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point Number 1: A foolish domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, 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 placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain 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)
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 baffled? We surely are!

Weak Point Number Two: The same mail folder setup

The email folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly increase their belief in God when handling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too fatally.

Weak Side Number Three: An utter lack of domain name administration GUIs

Do we have to point out the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" section at all. That's a major shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum two, maximum three)

How about the need for another login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel site hosting vendor. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction system (particularly built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the ardent customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Predicament Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel departments to grasp... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web page hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting corporations:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...