What is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel 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) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which generates a great number of different web hosting brands, yet offering the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace provide the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200k "Website Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
The Website Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied all website hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Inconvenience Number 1: An idiotic domain folder configuration
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how good 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 becoming nonplussed? We definitely are!
Disadvantage No.2: The same e-mail folder system
The mail folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly reinforce their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too seriously.
Weakness Number 3: A total deficiency of domain administration interfaces
Do we have to cite the total lack of a contemporary domain management menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a huge problem. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...
Disadvantage Number 4: Multiple user login places (min 2, maximum three)
How about the demand for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Website Hosting corporation. At times, based on the invoice transaction platform (particularly designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting provider is making use of, the enthusiastic users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration software platform; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).
Negative Side No.5: 120+ hosting CP sections to learn... quickly
cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a fine idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...
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