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What Exactly is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire website hosting market supply the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...

Two hundred thousand "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

Standard
Unlimited storage
Unlimited bandwidth
1 website hosted
30-Day Free Trial
$6.25 / month
Enhanced
Unlimited storage
Unlimited bandwidth
5 websites hosted
30-Day Free Trial
$8.75 / month
 

The web hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an average bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can select? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique hosting brand names in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered most web hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback No.1: A foolish domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely attentive not to remove completely 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 clearly are!

Negative Sign No.2: The same mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly reinforce their faith in God when managing the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too fatally.

Negative Sign Number 3: An absolute lack of domain manipulation tools

Do we need to refer to the sheer absence of a modern domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a great shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...

Weak Point Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max three)

What about the necessity for another login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration menu? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting distributor. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing system (principally tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the earnest clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign Number 5: 120+ hosting CP areas to get to know... briskly

cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a superb idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.

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

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