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cPanel Website Hosting Revealed

For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the current hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace offer exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...

200,000 "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

Business
Unlimited storage
Unlimited bandwidth
5 websites hosted
30-Day Free Trial
4.73 / month
Corporate
Unlimited storage
Unlimited bandwidth
Unlimited websites hosted
30-Day Free Trial
12.69 / month
 

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a normal bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.

The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in

Simple mathematics shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel website hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied all hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Weak Side Number 1: A laughable domain name folder system

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new 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 hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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 getting confused? We doubtlessly are!

Weak Point Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement

The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too severely.

Disadvantage Number 3: A complete shortage of domain management sections

Do we need to cite the utter lack of a modern domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a big downside. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Side Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration menu? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting provider. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction platform (principally intended for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting corporation is availing of, the avid clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).

Shortcoming Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to get familiar with... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.

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

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