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How cPanel Website Hosting Works

For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace supply the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

200k "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled

Business
Unlimited storage
Unlimited bandwidth
5 websites hosted
30-Day Free Trial
$6.67 / month
Professional
Unlimited storage
Unlimited bandwidth
Unlimited websites hosted
30-Day Free Trial
$10.83 / month
 

The website hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an average bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The pros and cons of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably met most website hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra careful 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Discover for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 name)
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 growing bewildered? We undeniably are!

Negative Side Number 2: The very same e-mail folder setup

The e-mail folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly enhance their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.

Disadvantage No.3: An entire shortage of domain name management interfaces

Do we have to mention the entire shortage of a modern domain management menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a mammoth weakness. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...

Drawback Number 4: Many login locations (min 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting firm. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction system (particularly developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting supplier is utilizing, the eager users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: More than 120 CP departments to grasp... quickly

cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting providers:

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