What Exactly is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which provides a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market supply absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
200k "Website Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are just a regular guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different hosting brand names across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied most website hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Point No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder arrangement
If you have two or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder setup 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 name)
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 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 puzzled? We positively are!
Downside Number 2: The same e-mail folder configuration
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.
Drawback Number Three: A thorough lack of domain administration menus
Do we need to bring up the utter lack of a modern domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" interface at all. That's a mammoth drawback. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...
Problem Number Four: Many login locations (min 2, max 3)
What about the need for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Website Hosting company. Now and then, based on the invoicing system (particularly built for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting corporation is making use of, the avid customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Shortcoming No.5: More than 120 hosting CP areas to get to know... briskly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting CP. It's a superb idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting distributors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...
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