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Explanation of cPanel Web Hosting

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For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offerings on today's web hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market offer strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...

200k "Web Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded

The Web Hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a regular bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 website hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands around the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present-day hosting market is... Full stop.

The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple mathematics shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...

The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel Web Hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled all web hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Point Number One: A laughable domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very attentive not to remove fully 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 domain names are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how amazing 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 name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
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 getting confused? We clearly are!

Negative Aspect Number 2: The same electronic mail folder structure

The email folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly fortify their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too irretrievably.

Problem No.3: A total lack of domain name manipulation GUIs

Do we have to cite the thorough shortage of a modern domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a vast drawback. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...

Negative Sign No.4: Numerous login places (min 2, maximum 3)

What about the demand for another login to utilize the billing, domain and tech support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting corporation. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting supplier is making use of, the zealous users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty CP sections to become acquainted with... quickly

cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting corporations:

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

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