How Does cPanel-based Web Hosting Work?

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

For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market offer the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k site hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web space hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed

The web hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k web site hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web space hosting brand names around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the current hosting market is... Full stop.

The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to select a non-cPanel based hosting service provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web page hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered most web space hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number One: A ludicrous domain folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to delete fully 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). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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 domains, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 name)
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 growing confused? We certainly are!

Drawback Number Two: The same electronic mail folder setup

The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly strengthen their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too fatally.

Negative Point Number Three: An entire lack of domain administration interfaces

Do we have to point out the complete lack of a contemporary domain management interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a big inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Side No.4: Numerous login places (min two, maximum three)

How about the demand for another login to avail of the invoicing, domain and technical support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting supplier. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (especially made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the avid users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Predicament No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the web page hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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

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