What Exactly is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on the present hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market provide exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...
200k "Website Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple math shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met all website hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Point Number 1: A foolish domain folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new 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 erase on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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. Discover for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 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 bewildered? We categorically are!
Shortcoming Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration
The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly reinforce their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too badly.
Disadvantage Number 3: An entire shortage of domain name manipulation sections
Do we have to refer to the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" tool at all. That's a mammoth shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we want to add...
Inconvenience Number Four: Numerous login locations (min 2, maximum 3)
How about the need for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain and technical support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Website Hosting provider. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction platform (principally tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting vendor is using, the enthusiastic users can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Weak Point No.5: More than 120 CP areas to grasp... swiftly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting companies:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...
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