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What Indeed is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting marketplace are generated by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which supplies a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market furnish the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the current web hosting market is... Period.
The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel web hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered most web hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Drawback Number One: A foolish domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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)
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 nonplussed? We surely are!
Weak Point No.2: The same e-mail folder setup
The mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly reinforce their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too fatally.
Weak Side No.3: A total absence of domain management options
Do we need to mention the absolute lack of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" section at all. That's a major disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...
Weak Point Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max 3)
How about the demand for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management software? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting provider. At times, based on the billing platform (principally intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the enthusiastic users can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... swiftly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a great idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...