What In Fact is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on the current web hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market supply precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
200k "Web Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an average fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brands worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied all hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Disadvantage Number 1: A dumb domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 becoming bewildered? We doubtlessly are!
Problem Number Two: The very same email folder setup
The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly increase their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too badly.
Problem Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain administration options
Do we have to point out the entire absence of a contemporary domain management tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a major downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...
Drawback No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, max three)
What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain name and tech support management system? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Web Hosting firm. Now and then, based on the billing platform (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting company is availing of, the avid customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Problem No.5: 120+ hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... rapidly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the CP. It's an excellent idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...
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