What Exactly is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same services: mostly 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 web hosting marketplace offer exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200,000 "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
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The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an average fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names in the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel website hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled most website hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Point No.1: An idiotic domain folder structure
If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how fabulous 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)
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 growing confused? We unquestionably are!
Negative Side No.2: The same e-mail folder structure
The electronic mail folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly fortify their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.
Downside Number 3: A total absence of domain name manipulation menus
Do we need to mention the entire deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a vast inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...
Shortcoming No.4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)
What about the necessity for an additional login to access the billing, domain and technical support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the billing platform (principally devised for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting firm is using, the ardent users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management section; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).
Inconvenience Number Five: More than 120 web hosting CP areas to grasp... quickly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the CP. It's a marvelous idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting service providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...