What is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are provided by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The Web Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are only a normal fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 website hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the contemporary hosting market is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered most website hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Aspect Number One: A stupid domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 absolutely are!
Disadvantage Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder configuration
The mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly increase their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too irreparably.
Negative Sign No.3: An utter shortage of domain management tools
Do we need to cite the total deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a big weakness. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...
Problem Number Four: Many user login places (minimum 2, max three)
How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Web Hosting vendor. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting provider is using, the devoted clients can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).
Drawback Number Five: 120+ web hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... promptly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting companies:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
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