What In Fact 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-day website hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which supplies a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting market offer strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/CP choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200k "Website Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an average chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brands worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly satisfied all hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Shortcoming No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 delete on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 growing confused? We positively are!
Weak Side Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder system
The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too irretrievably.
Shortcoming Number Three: A thorough shortage of domain name management GUIs
Do we need to mention the sheer absence of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a colossal shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...
Weakness Number Four: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)
What about the necessity for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Website Hosting vendor. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction tool (especially made for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting service provider is making use of, the earnest customers can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Weak Side Number 5: 120+ CP areas to get to know... promptly
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website 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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