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How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on the contemporary web page hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the whole site hosting market provide the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled

The web space hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal chap 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 individual domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web space hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brand names in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

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

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met all web hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Aspect Number One: A stupid domain folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the server, because 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 name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder system is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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)
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 bewildered? We surely are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The very same mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly increase their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too severely.

Downside Number 3: An entire lack of domain management sections

Do we need to cite the total absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a great inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...

Disadvantage Number Four: Many login places (minimum 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web space hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the invoicing tool (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the ardent users can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Downside Number Five: 120+ CP menus to get familiar with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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