What is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing strictly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a normal bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands around the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on today's website hosting market is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably satisfied most web hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Aspect No.1: A foolish domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new 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 created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 domains, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain 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)
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)
Are you becoming confused? We definitely are!
Weak Side Number 2: The very same e-mail folder system
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.
Negative Side Number Three: A complete shortage of domain administration sections
Do we have to point out the complete deficiency of a modern domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's a huge downside. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...
Negative Side Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum two, max 3)
What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Website Hosting corporation. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction tool (particularly meant for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting company is using, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Sign No.5: 120+ website hosting CP sections to get to know... briskly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting service providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...
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