What Does cPanel Web Hosting Represent?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on the present website hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market provide one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a regular guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can select? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably answered all website hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weakness No.1: A stupid domain name folder setup
If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder system 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 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)
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 getting perplexed? We positively are!
Weak Point Number 2: The same mail folder arrangement
The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly increase their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.
Problem Number Three: A complete lack of domain management user interfaces
Do we have to cite the utter absence of a modern domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a vast inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we want to add...
Weak Side Number 4: Numerous login locations (min two, max 3)
How about the demand for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Web Hosting supplier. Sometimes, based on the billing system (especially intended for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting supplier is using, the zealous users can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software solution; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).
Weakness Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to memorize... swiftly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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