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What Precisely is cPanel Hosting?

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business niche, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market supply absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/Control Panel choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...

200k "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled

Starter
Unlimited storage
Unlimited bandwidth
1 website hosted
30-Day Free Trial
$3.02 / month
Business
Unlimited storage
Unlimited bandwidth
5 websites hosted
30-Day Free Trial
$3.96 / month
 

The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present website hosting market is... Period.

The hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably covered all web hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number 1: A laughable domain folder arrangement

If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely attentive 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 domains are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)
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 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 growing perplexed? We undeniably are!

Negative Sign Number 2: The very same mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly fortify their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.

Disadvantage No.3: A complete lack of domain management interfaces

Do we need to cite the complete deficiency of a modern domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" menu at all. That's a big predicament. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...

Weak Side No.4: Multiple login places (min two, maximum 3)

What about the demand for an additional login to access the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel hosting firm. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing platform (principally created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting vendor is using, the earnest users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect No.5: 120+ Control Panel areas to learn... promptly

cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the CP. It's a glorious idea to learn each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting companies:

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