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How Does cPanel Hosting Work?
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on today's hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market offer the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
200k "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands around the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present hosting market is... Full stop.
The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big 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 web hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly answered all web hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Shortcoming No.1: A stupid domain folder structure
If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to delete fully 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 domains are quite simple to remove on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder system 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 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)
Are you becoming nonplussed? We certainly are!
Negative Side Number Two: The very same email folder configuration
The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.
Negative Aspect No.3: A sheer lack of domain management menus
Do we need to mention the thorough absence of a modern domain name management interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's a mammoth inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...
Weakness Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max 3)
How about the need for an additional login to make use of the billing, domain and tech support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (principally invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the ardent users can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).
Problem Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... quickly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a superb idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting vendors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...