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What In Fact is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting market provide one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named

Business
Unlimited storage
Unlimited bandwidth
5 websites hosted
30-Day Free Trial
$8.25 / month
Corporate
Unlimited storage
Unlimited bandwidth
Unlimited websites hosted
30-Day Free Trial
$12.25 / month
 

The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a regular fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brand names in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on today's website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled most website hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Disadvantage No.1: An imbecilic domain folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very attentive not to delete 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed 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. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 bewildered? We categorically are!

Weak Side Number 2: The same mail folder structure

The mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.

Predicament No.3: A sheer absence of domain administration GUIs

Do we need to bring up the sheer absence of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a colossal drawback. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Predicament No.4: Many user login places (min 2, maximum three)

How about the demand for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (particularly created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting supplier is making use of, the keen users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name management GUI; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Point No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to get familiar with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting distributors:

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