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What Precisely is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the current website hosting market are provided by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

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The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a regular bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique hosting brand names in the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the current hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered most web hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number 1: A stupid domain name folder setup

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
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)
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 perplexed? We undoubtedly are!

Downside Number Two: The same email folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly fortify their faith in God when handling the email folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too irretrievably.

Negative Side No.3: A complete shortage of domain name management options

Do we have to mention the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain management menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a great drawback. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Drawback Number Four: Many login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the demand for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting service provider. At times, depending on the invoicing platform (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the avid clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: 120+ hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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