What Precisely is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market furnish the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
200k "Website Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an average chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names around the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the contemporary website hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied all website hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Side Number 1: A foolish domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder configuration is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)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 name)
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 becoming confused? We clearly are!
Drawback No.2: The same electronic mail folder system
The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their faith in God when managing the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irretrievably.
Inconvenience Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain name manipulation tools
Do we have to point out the total shortage of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a gigantic drawback. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...
Weakness Number Four: Many login places (min 2, maximum 3)
What about the need for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain and tech support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Website Hosting provider. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (particularly created for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting corporation is making use of, the earnest users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).
Problem Number Five: More than 120 website hosting CP sections to get to know... rapidly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting service providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...
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