What Precisely is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting market furnish one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an average chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled all web hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Drawback Number 1: A stupid domain folder setup
If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to remove entirely 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 delete on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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)
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 baffled? We positively are!
Negative Side Number 2: The same email folder structure
The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too badly.
Weakness No.3: An entire shortage of domain administration user interfaces
Do we have to cite the sheer deficiency of a modern domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a colossal downside. An unforgivable one, we want to add...
Negative Point No.4: Numerous login places (min two, maximum three)
What about the need for an extra login to access the billing, domain and tech support management platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Web Hosting service provider. Occasionally, depending on the billing system (especially created for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting corporation is making use of, the zealous customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software solution; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Shortcoming No.5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel menus to learn... fast
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the hosting CP. It's a great idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting suppliers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...
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