What Actually is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on today's web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which provides a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace supply literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The Web Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names around the world will offer you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably met all web hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Point No.1: A laughable domain folder setup
If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 name)
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 puzzled? We doubtlessly are!
Problem No.2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration
The e-mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too severely.
Disadvantage Number Three: An utter absence of domain name manipulation sections
Do we have to refer to the complete absence of a modern domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" interface at all. That's a great problem. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...
Shortcoming Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting service provider. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction platform (principally devised for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting company is making use of, the ardent clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Drawback No.5: More than one hundred and twenty CP menus to become acquainted with... fast
cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting service providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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