What Actually is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which generates a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the entire web hosting market supply strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a normal bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands in the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered all website hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Side No.1: An idiotic domain folder arrangement
If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to erase entirely 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). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. See for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder setup 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 name)
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 name)
Are you growing baffled? We undeniably are!
Weakness No.2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly increase their faith in God when managing the email folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too irreparably.
Negative Point No.3: A sheer lack of domain management menus
Do we have to point out the entire absence of a contemporary domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" menu at all. That's a big weakness. An unforgettable one, we want to add...
Negative Point No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, max three)
What about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting distributor. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction system (principally devised for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting company is utilizing, the devoted users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Weak Side Number Five: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... rapidly
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting corporations:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
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