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How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary site hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web page hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting market offer the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200k "webspace hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The webspace hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a regular guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands around the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web site hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled all web space hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number 1: A dumb domain folder setup

If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 growing nonplussed? We certainly are!

Weak Side No.2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly strengthen their faith in God when managing the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too badly.

Shortcoming Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain management tools

Do we need to mention the total absence of a modern domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" tool at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Disadvantage No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, max 3)

What about the need for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting supplier. At times, based on the invoice transaction tool (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the devoted users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management GUI; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than 120 hosting Control Panel sections to get to know... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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