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What Actually is cPanel Website Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which supplies a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace offer exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...

200k "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

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The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k website hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names in the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

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

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled all website hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Drawback No.1: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the hosting 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder structure 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 name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
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 growing confused? We definitely are!

Downside No.2: The same email folder structure

The e-mail folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.

Weak Point No.3: An absolute lack of domain name administration tools

Do we have to mention the entire deficiency of a modern domain management menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a big shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...

Weak Point Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, max three)

How about the need for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting service provider. At times, depending on the billing platform (especially devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting vendor is utilizing, the ardent users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain management GUI; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).

Problem Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... briskly

cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting vendors:

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