What Exactly is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market furnish the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
200k "Web Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 website hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands across the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably met all hosting business prerequisites. 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 domain names...
Problem Number 1: An idiotic domain folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, 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 web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder configuration is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)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)
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 disorientated? We categorically are!
Drawback No.2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration
The mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly reinforce their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too irretrievably.
Inconvenience Number 3: An utter shortage of domain name manipulation tools
Do we have to refer to the utter absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" section at all. That's a major disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we want to add...
Downside No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max three)
What about the need for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain and technical support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Web Hosting vendor. Sometimes, depending on the billing tool (principally devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting provider is utilizing, the avid clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Sign Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty CP departments to get acquainted with... promptly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a fine idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...
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