What is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace supply the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...
200k "Web Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The Web Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a regular chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on today's website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably satisfied most web hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Side Number One: An idiotic domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 simple to remove on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 name)
Are you growing baffled? We clearly are!
Predicament No.2: The same electronic mail folder configuration
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too severely.
Weakness Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain manipulation menus
Do we need to point out the entire shortage of a modern domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" interface at all. That's a great shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...
Inconvenience No.4: Many login places (minimum 2, max three)
How about the demand for an additional login to make use of the billing, domain name and technical support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Web Hosting vendor. At times, based on the invoicing transaction tool (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting distributor is using, the ardent customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).
Predicament No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to become familiar with... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's inordinately 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 aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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