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What Indeed is cPanel 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 furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the entire hosting market supply precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
200k "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel CP and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present-day website hosting market is... Period.
The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple math reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly covered all web hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Predicament No.1: A moronic domain name folder arrangement
If you have two or more domains, however, be extra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent 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 hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 name)
Are you growing perplexed? We undeniably are!
Negative Point No.2: The very same email folder configuration
The mail folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.
Drawback Number Three: A complete absence of domain management GUIs
Do we need to refer to the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's a major disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...
Shortcoming No.4: Numerous user login places (min two, max 3)
How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and technical support management platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting supplier. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting distributor is utilizing, the keen users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Shortcoming Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to become familiar with... rapidly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...