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How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on the present site hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting market offer one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/Control Panel choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200k "web page hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

The website hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any site hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web space hosting brand names across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled most web hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point No.1: A stupid domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 becoming puzzled? We clearly are!

Weak Point No.2: The very same e-mail folder system

The mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly increase their faith in God when handling the email folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Drawback No.3: A complete absence of domain manipulation options

Do we need to refer to the sheer shortage of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" tool at all. That's a colossal drawback. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Shortcoming No.4: Many user login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the necessity for another login to use the billing, domain and technical support management software solution? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting vendor. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction system (particularly built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the eager customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Downside Number Five: 120+ website hosting CP departments to get to know... swiftly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a great idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting providers:

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