What is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market provide one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an average guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brands in the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered all web hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Side Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
Are you becoming confused? We surely are!
Weak Side No.2: The same e-mail folder configuration
The email folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly enhance their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too irretrievably.
Negative Point No.3: A total shortage of domain name management user interfaces
Do we need to mention the total shortage of a contemporary domain name administration GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" tool at all. That's an enormous inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we want to add...
Inconvenience No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum two, max three)
What about the need for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Web Hosting supplier. At times, based on the billing platform (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting service provider is availing of, the zealous clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management section; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Point Number 5: More than 120 CP departments to get acquainted with... fast
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's extremely impertinent 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 informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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