What Exactly is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offers on the present website hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which supplies a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market furnish absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an ordinary chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names worldwide will give you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met most web hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weakness Number One: A moronic domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the server, since they all are created 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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 growing confused? We undeniably are!
Problem Number 2: The same mail folder setup
The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly strengthen their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too fatally.
Weak Side Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain name administration sections
Do we need to bring up the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a considerable shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...
Negative Sign Number 4: Numerous login locations (min 2, maximum 3)
How about the need for an extra login to access the billing, domain name and tech support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Website Hosting firm. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction system (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting corporation is using, the devoted customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).
Problem Number 5: More than 120 website hosting CP sections to learn... quickly
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting companies:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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