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What Exactly is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which generates a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market supply literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

200k "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named

The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a regular fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 website hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names around the world will give you the very same cPanel CP and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider 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 one in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly covered all web hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Point No.1: A laughable domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 becoming bewildered? We undoubtedly are!

Downside No.2: The very same mail folder structure

The email folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too seriously.

Problem No.3: A complete shortage of domain administration interfaces

Do we need to cite the complete shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an enormous weakness. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...

Problem Number 4: Multiple login locations (min 2, max 3)

What about the need for another login to avail of the billing, domain name and technical support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting corporation. At times, on the basis of the billing platform (principally tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting supplier is using, the eager users can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).

Problem No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to get acquainted with... swiftly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting service providers:

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