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How does cpanel site hosting work?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the contemporary site hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire hosting market provide literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...

200,000 "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The website hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a regular bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web space hosting brands across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled most site hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback No.1: A stupid domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 bewildered? We undeniably are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same mail folder system

The e-mail folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too seriously.

Weak Point Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain manipulation GUIs

Do we need to bring up the complete absence of a contemporary domain management platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an immense problem. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Problem No.4: Numerous user login locations (min two, max three)

What about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting provider. Now and then, depending on the invoicing tool (principally created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Side Number 5: More than 120 website hosting CP departments to pick up... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the site hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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