What is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace furnish the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...
200k "Website Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands across the world will give you the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly satisfied most web hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Predicament Number 1: A foolish domain name folder system
If you have two or more domains, however, be very attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder system 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 name)
Are you getting confused? We positively are!
Negative Side Number Two: The same e-mail folder structure
The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly increase their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irretrievably.
Predicament Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain administration options
Do we need to refer to the complete lack of a modern domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a colossal weakness. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...
Negative Sign Number Four: Numerous user login places (min 2, maximum three)
How about the need for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Website Hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (especially designed for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting corporation is using, the avid users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).
Weak Side No.5: More than 120 web hosting CP areas to get to know... rapidly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the CP. It's a fine idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting corporations:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...
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