What Precisely is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace provide strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The Web Hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an average chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably fulfilled most hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Side Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder structure
If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 confused? We absolutely are!
Downside No.2: The very same mail folder arrangement
The mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly strengthen their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irretrievably.
Inconvenience Number 3: A thorough absence of domain name administration GUIs
Do we need to point out the total absence of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" interface at all. That's a considerable drawback. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...
Inconvenience No.4: Many user login places (min 2, maximum three)
What about the need for an extra login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Web Hosting provider. At times, based on the billing tool (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting distributor is availing of, the keen clients can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).
Downside Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... promptly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a superb idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting service providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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