What Exactly is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small business segment, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting market supply strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
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The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a regular person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different hosting brands around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present-day hosting market is... Full stop.
The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple math demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel web hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly fulfilled all web hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weakness Number One: A laughable domain folder arrangement
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, 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 server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed 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. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 name)
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 puzzled? We certainly are!
Negative Point Number 2: The very same mail folder setup
The electronic mail folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.
Inconvenience No.3: A total deficiency of domain name management interfaces
Do we have to point out the utter deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a big predicament. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...
Drawback Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)
What about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management section? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing platform (especially conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the keen users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).
Inconvenience Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to get familiar with... swiftly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting vendors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...