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How does cpanel web site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the present-day hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web space hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting marketplace provide one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web page hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web space hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any site hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different hosting brands around the world will offer you the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day web space hosting market is... Full stop.

The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel webspace hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied most web space hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra careful not to erase fully 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). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain 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 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 becoming perplexed? We surely are!

Negative Sign No.2: The same email folder configuration

The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly increase their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too gravely.

Negative Aspect Number Three: An entire shortage of domain management interfaces

Do we have to point out the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain management platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" menu at all. That's a major weakness. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Predicament Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum two, max three)

How about the need for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web site hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction tool (principally tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the avid customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management system; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty CP menus to get to know... promptly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web space hosting CP. It's a fine idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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