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How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on today's web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market supply one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The site hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a regular person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 web site hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web page hosting brands around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present-day web site hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...

The pros and cons of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably answered all site hosting market prerequisites. 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 domains...

Negative Point Number 1: A stupid domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to remove 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). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 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 becoming nonplussed? We definitely are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The same mail folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too fatally.

Inconvenience Number Three: A total deficiency of domain name administration options

Do we have to point out the total lack of a modern domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" interface at all. That's a considerable downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Disadvantage No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the necessity for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel site hosting distributor. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (especially meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is making use of, the avid clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number Five: More than 120 web site hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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