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What In Fact is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market furnish one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a normal guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly fulfilled all website hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Side Number One: A stupid domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how fantastic 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)
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 name)

Are you growing baffled? We absolutely are!

Downside Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder setup

The mail folder arrangement on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly increase their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too harshly.

Predicament No.3: A complete absence of domain name manipulation menus

Do we need to bring up the complete shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a great shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...

Negative Aspect Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting supplier. At times, depending on the billing system (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the devoted clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than 120 website hosting CP menus to learn... briskly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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