What Exactly is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on the present hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which supplies an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace offer exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...
200k "Web Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a normal fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names across the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled all web hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Drawback No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 domain names, please. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)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)
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 getting baffled? We clearly are!
Negative Point Number Two: The same electronic mail folder system
The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly enhance their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too gravely.
Weak Side Number 3: A complete lack of domain name administration interfaces
Do we have to mention the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain administration platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" tool at all. That's a big shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...
Negative Side Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)
How about the necessity for another login to access the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Web Hosting corporation. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing platform (especially developed for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting provider is availing of, the earnest users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).
Shortcoming Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... fast
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting service providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...
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