What is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on the present-day hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web page hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web site hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different site hosting brand names worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly answered all hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Downside Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder arrangement
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
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)
Are you getting perplexed? We absolutely are!
Predicament No.2: The very same email folder configuration
The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly increase their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.
Disadvantage Number Three: A sheer lack of domain manipulation sections
Do we have to bring up the total shortage of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" interface at all. That's a colossal shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...
Negative Aspect No.4: Multiple user login places (min 2, maximum 3)
How about the need for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting supplier. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction system (principally meant for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting service provider is making use of, the devoted customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Weakness Number 5: More than 120 web site hosting Control Panel departments to pick up... rapidly
cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting distributors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...
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