What is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market supply the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
200k "Web Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The Web Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an average person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k website hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably met most web hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Disadvantage Number One: A dumb domain folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how fabulous 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)
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 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 name)
Are you growing nonplussed? We unquestionably are!
Shortcoming Number 2: The very same mail folder arrangement
The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly increase their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too gravely.
Drawback Number 3: An utter deficiency of domain name manipulation sections
Do we need to cite the complete absence of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a colossal downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...
Inconvenience Number 4: Multiple login places (min 2, max three)
How about the need for an extra login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management software solution? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Web Hosting provider. At times, based on the invoice transaction system (principally built for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting firm is utilizing, the ardent users can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain name administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty Control Panel departments to become familiar with... swiftly
cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting suppliers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
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