What Exactly is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on the contemporary hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200k "Web Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an average chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands in the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps answered most website hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Inconvenience Number One: A foolish domain name folder system
If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to remove completely 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated 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. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain 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)
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 getting bewildered? We absolutely are!
Downside No.2: The very same mail folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.
Negative Sign No.3: A complete lack of domain management user interfaces
Do we have to cite the absolute shortage of a modern domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" tool at all. That's an enormous inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we want to add...
Negative Point Number 4: Multiple user login places (min 2, max 3)
What about the necessity for another login to use the billing, domain name and tech support management software? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting provider. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction system (principally built for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting provider is availing of, the zealous clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management software; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Negative Sign No.5: 120+ web hosting CP sections to become familiar with... briskly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based 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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