What Exactly is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace supply one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
The Web Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly satisfied most website hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weakness Number One: An idiotic domain name folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely attentive 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 easy to delete on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 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)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
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 baffled? We doubtlessly are!
Weak Side No.2: The same electronic mail folder setup
The email folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly increase their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.
Weakness Number 3: An entire shortage of domain name manipulation GUIs
Do we have to refer to the entire absence of a modern domain management platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...
Drawback Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min two, max 3)
How about the necessity for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Web Hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the invoicing tool (particularly developed for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting supplier is using, the keen clients can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Weak Point Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel menus to become familiar with... promptly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's very arrogant 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? Mind that one too...
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