What is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace offer one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an average chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names around the world will give you the very same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably met all website hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Sign No.1: A laughable domain folder arrangement
If you have two or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next 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 erase on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder structure 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 confused? We certainly are!
Weak Point Number 2: The same mail folder structure
The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly increase their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too fatally.
Drawback Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain administration GUIs
Do we have to mention the thorough deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a considerable drawback. An unforgivable one, we want to add...
Shortcoming Number Four: Multiple login places (min 2, max 3)
What about the demand for another login to make use of the billing, domain name and technical support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Website Hosting company. Now and then, depending on the billing tool (particularly made for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting company is making use of, the devoted customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).
Weak Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... briskly
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a superb idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting service providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
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