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How does cpanel-based hosting function?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on today's web hosting market are provided by a very insignificant business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which generates a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offers on the entire website hosting market provide one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/Control Panel choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k site hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200k "web space hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web site hosting brand names all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met most website hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Shortcoming No.1: An imbecilic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name 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)
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 confused? We undoubtedly are!

Inconvenience Number 2: The same e-mail folder configuration

The email folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly increase their belief in God when managing the email folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.

Weakness Number Three: An entire absence of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to point out the utter absence of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a great shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Drawback Number 4: Numerous login locations (min two, max three)

How about the need for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and technical support management software? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the billing tool (principally conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ sections inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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