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For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a big number of different web hosting brands, yet offering exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting market provide strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...

Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed

The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an average guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands in the world will give you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present-day website hosting market is... Period.

The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel Web Hosting solution

Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly satisfied all web hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Disadvantage Number One: An idiotic domain name folder setup

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent 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 delete on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder structure 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)

Are you becoming bewildered? We absolutely are!

Downside Number 2: The very same email folder configuration

The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly fortify their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too seriously.

Problem No.3: A complete lack of domain manipulation tools

Do we have to bring up the thorough absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" menu at all. That's a vast downside. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...

Disadvantage No.4: Many user login places (min two, max three)

How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration software? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting corporation. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (especially meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting supplier is utilizing, the zealous customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).

Predicament Number Five: 120+ Control Panel departments to get to know... briskly

cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting service providers:

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

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