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Definition of cPanel Website Hosting

For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the current website hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the entire website hosting market furnish literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled

Startup Package
Unlimited storage
Unlimited bandwidth
1 website hosted
30-Day Free Trial
$3.75 / month
Business
Unlimited storage
Unlimited bandwidth
5 websites hosted
30-Day Free Trial
$7.33 / month
 

The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k website hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Full stop.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of

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

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution

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

Problem No.1: A foolish domain folder system

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
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)
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 name)

Are you growing perplexed? We certainly are!

Weakness No.2: The very same email folder system

The mail folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too irreparably.

Predicament No.3: An utter lack of domain name management tools

Do we need to bring up the total absence of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's an immense downside. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...

Weak Side Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min two, maximum three)

How about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting vendor. Sometimes, depending on the billing tool (principally made for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting corporation is making use of, the enthusiastic users can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).

Inconvenience Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.

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

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