What Exactly is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting market provide the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands across the world will give you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps answered all web hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Aspect Number One: A stupid domain name folder arrangement
If you have two or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web server, since 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how amazing 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)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
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 becoming baffled? We surely are!
Inconvenience No.2: The same electronic mail folder configuration
The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly increase their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too harshly.
Problem Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain name management options
Do we need to cite the absolute absence of a modern domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a considerable weakness. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...
Negative Aspect Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)
What about the demand for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Web Hosting provider. Sometimes, based on the invoicing tool (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting corporation is using, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).
Weak Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to become acquainted with... rapidly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting vendors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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