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Definition of cPanel Web Hosting

For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on today's web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole hosting market provide absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...

200k "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting option you can select? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present hosting market is... Full stop.

The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied all website hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Weakness Number 1: A foolish domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, 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 web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain 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 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 name)

Are you becoming nonplussed? We certainly are!

Negative Sign Number Two: The same e-mail folder structure

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly increase their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too seriously.

Negative Point Number 3: An utter lack of domain name manipulation options

Do we need to refer to the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain management tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a big predicament. An unforgivable one, we want to add...

Predicament Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)

How about the demand for another login to make use of the billing, domain name and technical support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting company. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (especially devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is using, the keen users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Sign No.5: 120+ web hosting CP sections to get to know... promptly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.

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

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...