What Actually is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which generates a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The Web Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered all web hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Disadvantage Number One: A laughable domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 puzzled? We unquestionably are!
Negative Aspect No.2: The very same mail folder structure
The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly increase their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too gravely.
Shortcoming Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain manipulation options
Do we have to bring up the absolute lack of a contemporary domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an enormous disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...
Weakness Number 4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, max three)
How about the need for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Web Hosting distributor. At times, depending on the invoice transaction tool (principally conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting company is using, the zealous customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain management user interface; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Aspect No.5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP menus to get acquainted with... promptly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting vendors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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