How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the entire web space hosting market supply precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "webspace hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an average chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brands around the world will offer you the very same cPanel CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on today's website hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps answered most web hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point Number 1: A dumb domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, because 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 is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 growing nonplussed? We positively are!

Problem Number Two: The same e-mail folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly increase their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Shortcoming Number 3: A thorough absence of domain administration tools

Do we need to refer to the total deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Multiple login places (min 2, max 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting service provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the earnest users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain name management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web page hosting CP menus to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting distributors:

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