What is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market supply the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an ordinary chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on today's website hosting market is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled all web hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Side Number One: A dumb domain folder arrangement
If you have two or more domains, though, be very attentive not to remove completely 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). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 name)
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 bewildered? We clearly are!
Weak Side Number 2: The same mail folder configuration
The email folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their faith in God when managing the email folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.
Drawback No.3: An absolute lack of domain manipulation tools
Do we have to bring up the complete deficiency of a modern domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a huge problem. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...
Problem Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)
How about the demand for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting vendor. Now and then, depending on the invoicing system (particularly devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting firm is making use of, the avid customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).
Weak Side No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... fast
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting service providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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