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What Precisely is cPanel Web Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market supply the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...

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The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a normal fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 website hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands across the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps met all website hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number One: An idiotic domain folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 domains, please. Determine 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)
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 puzzled? We definitely are!

Negative Aspect Number Two: The same e-mail folder setup

The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the email folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Weak Point No.3: An absolute absence of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we need to cite the entire shortage of a contemporary domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a colossal shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...

Inconvenience Number Four: Many user login locations (min 2, max three)

How about the demand for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting service provider. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (principally made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the avid clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).

Negative Point Number 5: More than 120 website hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

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