What is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace offer the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The Website Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the contemporary website hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied most website hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Point Number 1: A laughable domain folder setup
If you have two or more domain names, though, be very careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, 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. Check for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder system 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 perplexed? We categorically are!
Shortcoming Number 2: The same mail folder structure
The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.
Problem Number 3: An entire absence of domain name administration interfaces
Do we have to mention the sheer shortage of a modern domain management platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" section at all. That's a great drawback. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...
Weakness Number 4: Multiple login locations (min 2, max 3)
How about the demand for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Website Hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing system (particularly invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting vendor is utilizing, the eager clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Problem Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to get familiar with... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the CP. It's an excellent idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting suppliers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
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