How does cpanel website hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the contemporary hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the whole site hosting market furnish the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

200,000 "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a normal guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k web site hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names around the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present-day website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

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

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled most web space hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent 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 web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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 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)

Are you becoming disorientated? We undoubtedly are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too badly.

Inconvenience Number 3: An utter deficiency of domain management GUIs

Do we have to mention the complete shortage of a modern domain name management interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a gigantic downside. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

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

What about the necessity for another login to use the billing, domain and technical support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web page hosting distributor. Now and then, depending on the invoicing system (particularly built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the keen users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: 120+ webspace hosting Control Panel departments to learn... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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