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What Precisely is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting market supply the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

200,000 "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands worldwide will give you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on today's web hosting market is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled all web hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback Number 1: A laughable domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 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 getting disorientated? We positively are!

Downside Number 2: The same email folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly fortify their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.

Weak Side No.3: An utter deficiency of domain name administration sections

Do we need to refer to the thorough deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a big disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Predicament Number 4: Many login locations (min 2, max three)

What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain name and tech support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting provider. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction platform (particularly meant for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting provider is availing of, the keen clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel areas to grasp... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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