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What In Fact is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the current hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market supply precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an ordinary bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably answered most web hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage Number One: A laughable domain name folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, though, be extra attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the server, since they all are located 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain 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)
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 becoming disorientated? We certainly are!

Weak Point Number Two: The very same email folder configuration

The mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too irretrievably.

Weak Point Number Three: A thorough absence of domain administration GUIs

Do we have to mention the entire lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a great downside. An unpardonable one, we want to add...

Negative Side Number 4: Many user login locations (min 2, max 3)

How about the need for an extra login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting company. At times, depending on the billing transaction tool (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the keen users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point Number 5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... quickly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting corporations:

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...