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What Actually is cPanel Hosting?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on today's website hosting market are furnished by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace offer literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...

200,000 "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an average bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 website hosting distributors 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 around the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the current website hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...

The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps met most website hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weakness Number One: An idiotic domain folder system

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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 name)

Are you growing bewildered? We definitely are!

Weakness Number 2: The same electronic mail folder setup

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly enhance their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too fatally.

Drawback Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain name administration tools

Do we need to cite the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" menu at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we want to add...

Negative Point Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum two, max 3)

How about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain and technical support management section? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting distributor. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction tool (particularly created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is utilizing, the avid customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number Five: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel areas to become familiar with... rapidly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting suppliers:

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