What is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace supply absolutely 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 require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...
200k "Web Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The Web Hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 website hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands around the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled most web hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Shortcoming Number One: A foolish domain folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, because 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 located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name 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)
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 name)
Are you getting bewildered? We undoubtedly are!
Inconvenience Number 2: The same email folder system
The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too irretrievably.
Weak Point Number Three: A complete lack of domain name manipulation interfaces
Do we have to cite the sheer shortage of a modern domain name administration platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a major inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...
Drawback Number Four: Many user login locations (min two, max three)
How about the necessity for another login to utilize the billing, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Web Hosting vendor. At times, based on the billing platform (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting vendor is making use of, the avid clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Weakness No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... quickly
cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...
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