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What is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing literally the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace provide strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...

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The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k website hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands around the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably met all web hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weak Point Number One: A dumb domain name folder structure

If you have two or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). 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 name, which is the very 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 disorientated? We certainly are!

Negative Aspect No.2: The very same mail folder setup

The email folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too seriously.

Weakness Number 3: A total absence of domain name manipulation user interfaces

Do we have to cite the entire lack of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a huge weakness. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...

Weak Side Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)

What about the demand for another login to use the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration user interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting firm is using, the enthusiastic users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel areas to memorize... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...