What Actually is cPanel Hosting?
For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel Hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which generates a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market offer absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/Control Panel option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a normal guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands around the world will give you precisely the same cPanel CP and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the current web hosting market is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly satisfied most hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Shortcoming Number One: A laughable domain folder structure
If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 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)
Are you growing disorientated? We certainly are!
Weakness Number 2: The same e-mail folder setup
The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly increase their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irretrievably.
Shortcoming Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain management sections
Do we need to cite the sheer deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" interface at all. That's an enormous weakness. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...
Predicament No.4: Many login places (min two, maximum three)
What about the demand for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain and technical support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Hosting distributor. Now and then, based on the billing transaction platform (particularly tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting corporation is availing of, the earnest clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration platform; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).
Weak Point Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... briskly
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting vendors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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