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How Does cPanel Hosting Work?

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For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel Hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which generates a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace offer exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...

200,000 "Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are just an ordinary chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k web hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on today's website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple math shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel Hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly satisfied all website hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 erase on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 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 name)

Are you becoming confused? We undeniably are!

Shortcoming Number 2: The very same mail folder system

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly enhance their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.

Negative Point No.3: An utter shortage of domain administration menus

Do we have to mention the sheer lack of a contemporary domain management menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a vast downside. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Weakness Number 4: Numerous login locations (min two, max three)

What about the necessity for another login to access the invoicing, domain name and tech support management system? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Hosting vendor. At times, on the basis of the invoicing platform (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting vendor is availing of, the ardent users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to get to know... rapidly

cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting corporations:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...

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