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How does cpanel-based site hosting function?

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the present website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which generates a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace supply one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/web space hosting CP alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "web site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

The web page hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a regular fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website development processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web page hosting brands around the world will offer you the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in

Simple math reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly fulfilled most website hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Problem Number 1: A foolish domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, 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 placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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 name)

Are you getting disorientated? We surely are!

Disadvantage Number 2: The same e-mail folder setup

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly increase their belief in God when handling the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.

Predicament Number 3: A thorough shortage of domain management sections

Do we need to cite the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's a mammoth drawback. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Disadvantage No.4: Many login places (minimum two, max three)

How about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting vendor. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction tool (particularly invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the devoted customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting suppliers:

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