What Exactly is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which supplies a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
200k "Website Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brands worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the contemporary website hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably satisfied most website hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Predicament No.1: A moronic domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 becoming confused? We doubtlessly are!
Weak Point No.2: The very same mail folder configuration
The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly increase their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too seriously.
Predicament Number 3: A thorough lack of domain name management tools
Do we need to cite the complete deficiency of a modern domain name administration GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a major shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...
Inconvenience Number 4: Multiple login places (min two, maximum three)
What about the necessity for another login to access the invoicing, domain name and tech support management menu? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Website Hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction system (principally built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting distributor is making use of, the zealous clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Weak Point No.5: More than 120 hosting CP menus to learn... swiftly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting firms:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...
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