What Exactly is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are generated by a very insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The Website Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 website hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on today's web hosting market is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met all website hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Shortcoming Number One: A foolish domain folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 easy to delete on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder setup is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)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)
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 growing baffled? We surely are!
Predicament Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder structure
The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly fortify their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too fatally.
Negative Point Number 3: A thorough lack of domain name management GUIs
Do we need to bring up the utter lack of a contemporary domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" section at all. That's a great disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...
Downside Number 4: Multiple login places (min 2, maximum three)
What about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Website Hosting company. Occasionally, depending on the billing system (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting distributor is availing of, the avid customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Drawback Number Five: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... briskly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a fine idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting suppliers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...
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