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How Does cPanel Hosting Operate?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on the current web hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace supply exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an average guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met all website hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Negative Point No.1: A moronic domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 getting puzzled? We undoubtedly are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The very same email folder setup

The mail folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly increase their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.

Problem Number Three: An entire lack of domain name management sections

Do we need to bring up the entire lack of a contemporary domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)

How about the need for an additional login to access the billing, domain name and technical support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting vendor. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction tool (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting firm is availing of, the enthusiastic users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Disadvantage Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the Control Panel. It's a great idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting distributors:

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