What Indeed is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are provided by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace supply the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The Web Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an average bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered all web hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Predicament No.1: A stupid domain folder system
If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the server, since they all are situated 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 located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 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 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 growing puzzled? We absolutely are!
Problem Number Two: The same mail folder configuration
The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly reinforce their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.
Negative Point No.3: A sheer lack of domain name administration menus
Do we need to mention the utter lack of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a great predicament. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...
Shortcoming No.4: Many user login locations (min two, max 3)
How about the demand for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Web Hosting supplier. Now and then, based on the billing transaction tool (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting distributor is using, the eager customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Downside Number 5: More than 120 website hosting CP departments to get familiar with... quickly
cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting companies:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...
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