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How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are provided by a very insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the entire web space hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web page hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an average guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any site hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names around the world will give you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled most web hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number One: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, 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 server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name 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 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)
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 confused? We certainly are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The same email folder system

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 strongly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too irreparably.

Problem Number 3: A total absence of domain name administration tools

Do we have to mention the entire lack of a contemporary domain management platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" interface at all. That's a mammoth disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...

Shortcoming Number Four: Many login locations (minimum 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration user interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting supplier. At times, based on the billing transaction platform (principally invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the zealous customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration software; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting CP sections to grasp... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web space hosting CP. It's a superb idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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