What In Fact is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offerings on the current hosting market are generated by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which supplies an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the entire website hosting market provide one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k web hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands across the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on today's hosting market is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably satisfied all web hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Side Number 1: An idiotic domain folder setup
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 becoming confused? We certainly are!
Negative Sign No.2: The very same email folder setup
The email folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too seriously.
Downside Number 3: A total absence of domain name administration interfaces
Do we have to cite the total absence of a contemporary domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a considerable shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...
Weak Point Number 4: Numerous login places (min 2, max three)
How about the demand for an additional login to access the billing, domain name and technical support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Website Hosting distributor. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (especially tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting distributor is using, the eager customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Weakness Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... swiftly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting firms:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...
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