What is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on today's hosting marketplace are provided by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed
The Web Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an average fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled most website hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Drawback Number One: A laughable domain folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine 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 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 disorientated? We unquestionably are!
Negative Side Number Two: The same e-mail folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when managing the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too irretrievably.
Negative Sign No.3: A total lack of domain administration tools
Do we need to cite the utter shortage of a modern domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a colossal predicament. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...
Problem No.4: Many login locations (min 2, max three)
How about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Web Hosting firm. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (particularly built for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting supplier is utilizing, the avid clients can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Downside Number 5: More than 120 website hosting CP sections to memorize... rapidly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting companies:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
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