What is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet offering absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded
The Website Hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an average person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names across the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps met all hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Aspect Number One: An idiotic domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domains, though, be very watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder system 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 name)
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 disorientated? We doubtlessly are!
Shortcoming Number 2: The same email folder system
The email folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly strengthen their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too gravely.
Negative Aspect Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain administration sections
Do we need to refer to the thorough absence of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" interface at all. That's an immense weakness. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...
Negative Aspect Number 4: Many login places (min two, max three)
What about the need for an extra login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and tech support management interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Website Hosting vendor. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing platform (especially created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting vendor is availing of, the zealous users can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).
Weakness Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP sections to become familiar with... briskly
cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, 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? Mind that one as well...
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