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How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the entire web site hosting market supply literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brands across the world will offer you the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered all site hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Downside Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder system 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 name)
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 getting disorientated? We clearly are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The same e-mail folder arrangement

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly increase their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too badly.

Shortcoming Number Three: An utter lack of domain management GUIs

Do we have to point out the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain management menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a vast weakness. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...

Shortcoming Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum two, max 3)

What about the need for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel site hosting vendor. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction system (particularly invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the avid users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than 120 webspace hosting CP sections to become acquainted with... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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