What Precisely is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market offer literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200k "Website Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an ordinary chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different hosting brands worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably covered most website hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Side Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder system
If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the server, since they all are set up 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder structure is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)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)
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 growing perplexed? We categorically are!
Downside Number Two: The same electronic mail folder configuration
The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly increase their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too irretrievably.
Disadvantage No.3: An entire shortage of domain management interfaces
Do we have to point out the utter absence of a modern domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a major disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...
Inconvenience No.4: Multiple login locations (min two, maximum three)
What about the need for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Website Hosting corporation. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (especially designed for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting vendor is utilizing, the eager customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Drawback Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to get to know... briskly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...
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