What Precisely is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market supply precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably satisfied all website hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Downside No.1: A laughable domain name folder setup
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder structure is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)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 becoming perplexed? We clearly are!
Negative Side Number 2: The same mail folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly reinforce their belief in God when handling the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.
Disadvantage Number Three: An absolute absence of domain name administration interfaces
Do we have to bring up the thorough lack of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" tool at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...
Weak Side Number 4: Numerous user login places (minimum two, max three)
How about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Web Hosting provider. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting distributor is making use of, the earnest customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Sign Number Five: 120+ web hosting CP areas to memorize... fast
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting distributors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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