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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 offers on today's website hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting market provide one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
200k "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The website hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are only an average person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on today's hosting market is... Full stop.
The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably met all hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Point No.1: A foolish domain name folder arrangement
If you have two or more domains, though, be very watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how terrific 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 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 becoming nonplussed? We clearly are!
Drawback Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.
Weak Side No.3: An absolute absence of domain name administration sections
Do we have to mention the sheer deficiency of a modern domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a major drawback. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...
Inconvenience No.4: Many user login locations (min 2, max 3)
How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management menu? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting firm. Now and then, on the basis of the billing tool (principally tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting provider is availing of, the ardent customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Side No.5: More than 120 website hosting CP menus to become familiar with... fast
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting firms:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...