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How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on the current hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market provide one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/web page hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The website hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a regular guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web page hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web page hosting brand names across the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the current site hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered most webspace hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Problem Number 1: A laughable domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 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 getting disorientated? We definitely are!

Weak Side No.2: The very same email folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too harshly.

Predicament Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain administration options

Do we need to bring up the utter absence of a modern domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an immense drawback. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Inconvenience Number 4: Many user login places (min 2, max three)

What about the need for an extra login to make use of the invoicing, domain and tech support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting company. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction system (particularly intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the zealous users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management section; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel menus to become familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web site hosting CP. It's a superb idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting providers:

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