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What Does cPanel Hosting Denote?

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market offer the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...

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The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a regular guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel website hosting solution

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

Shortcoming Number 1: A dumb domain folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how marvelous 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 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)
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 nonplussed? We surely are!

Downside Number Two: The same mail folder configuration

The email folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too badly.

Downside Number Three: A sheer absence of domain manipulation tools

Do we have to bring up the absolute absence of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a major predicament. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Weak Side Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min two, maximum 3)

How about the demand for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting firm. At times, on the basis of the billing tool (principally created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting firm is using, the avid users can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Drawback Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel departments to grasp... swiftly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the CP. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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