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How does cpanel site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present web site hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business niche, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole web page hosting marketplace provide the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200,000 "site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The site hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brands in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the current site hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled all webspace hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Side Number One: A dumb domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very watchful 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). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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)

Are you becoming nonplussed? We unquestionably are!

Weak Side Number Two: The very same mail folder configuration

The mail folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly reinforce their belief in God when handling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too severely.

Drawback No.3: A thorough absence of domain management tools

Do we have to point out the sheer deficiency of a modern domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" tool at all. That's a vast problem. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Numerous login locations (min two, max three)

What about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting distributor. Sometimes, based on the invoicing platform (principally made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the keen users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: 120+ site hosting Control Panel areas to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to learn each of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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