How Does cPanel Web Hosting Work?

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cPanel-based hosting or... cPanel website hosting?!?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on the present-day web page hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel website hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded

The web space hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a normal guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present web space hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all a piece of

Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based hosting service provider is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution

Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied all web space hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number 1: A dumb domain folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to delete 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 domains are quite easy to erase on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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)
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)

Are you getting baffled? We clearly are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The very same mail folder system

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly strengthen their faith in God when handling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.

Weak Side Number 3: An absolute lack of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to bring up the sheer lack of a contemporary domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Negative Side Number 4: Multiple login locations (min two, max 3)

How about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction system (especially tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the earnest clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Side No.5: More than 120 site hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ sections inside the web space hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting service providers:

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