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How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present web page hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole web site hosting market supply the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web site hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

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

The web page hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any site hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k site hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

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

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered all web page hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 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 name)
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 growing confused? We categorically are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The very same mail folder system

The email folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly fortify their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too irretrievably.

Problem Number Three: An absolute absence of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we need to bring up the absolute shortage of a modern domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a huge weakness. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Shortcoming Number 4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain and tech support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting firm. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction system (especially intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the avid clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the CP. It's a terrific idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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