What is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on the present website hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market offer the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...
200k "Web Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a regular bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? 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 absolutely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the current hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled all web hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Aspect Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder setup
If you have two or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to erase completely 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name 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)
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)
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 growing confused? We undeniably are!
Disadvantage No.2: The same e-mail folder structure
The mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly strengthen their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too irretrievably.
Weakness No.3: An utter absence of domain management options
Do we need to mention the absolute absence of a modern domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a huge inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...
Negative Sign Number 4: Many user login locations (min two, maximum 3)
How about the need for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Web Hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction system (particularly intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting service provider is utilizing, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Weak Side No.5: More than 120 CP areas to grasp... swiftly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting service providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...
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