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Explanation of cPanel Hosting

For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market provide precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The Hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a regular person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Period.

The Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based Hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly covered most web hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side No.1: A stupid domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how fantastic 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)
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 getting nonplussed? We clearly are!

Weak Point Number Two: The same e-mail folder configuration

The email folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too badly.

Drawback Number 3: An entire lack of domain manipulation tools

Do we need to point out the utter shortage of a contemporary domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a considerable downside. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...

Weak Point Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management section? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Hosting firm. Now and then, based on the billing transaction system (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting firm is utilizing, the keen customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Weak Point No.5: 120+ website hosting CP sections to get familiar with... fast

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting firms:

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