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How Does cPanel Hosting Function?

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How Does cPanel Hosting Function?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace provide literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

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

The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names all over the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

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

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably satisfied most website hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number 1: A foolish domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how terrific 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 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)
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 growing baffled? We categorically are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The same mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.

Drawback Number Three: An entire shortage of domain name administration tools

Do we need to bring up the total shortage of a modern domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" section at all. That's a great inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...

Inconvenience Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max 3)

What about the need for another login to make use of the billing, domain name and tech support management system? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (principally devised for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting firm is availing of, the devoted customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management GUI; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Inconvenience Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the hosting CP. It's a superb idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting vendors:

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