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How Does cPanel Website Hosting Work?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

Business
Unlimited storage
Unlimited bandwidth
5 websites hosted
30-Day Free Trial
$8.50 / month
Corporate
Unlimited storage
Unlimited bandwidth
Unlimited websites hosted
30-Day Free Trial
$15.33 / month
 

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are only a regular guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...

The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably met all web hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder arrangement

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how fabulous 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 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 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)

Are you growing nonplussed? We surely are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The same electronic mail folder structure

The mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly increase their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too gravely.

Downside Number Three: A thorough shortage of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we have to bring up the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" interface at all. That's a colossal shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Inconvenience No.4: Numerous login locations (min two, max 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the invoicing platform (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting vendor is utilizing, the earnest clients can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).

Disadvantage Number 5: More than 120 Control Panel menus to grasp... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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