What is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting market offer the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k web hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brands across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered all website hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Point No.1: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement
If you have two or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain 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 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 becoming bewildered? We clearly are!
Inconvenience Number 2: The very same email folder system
The mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too severely.
Disadvantage Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain management tools
Do we need to bring up the entire deficiency of a modern domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a colossal shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...
Problem Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)
How about the need for an additional login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Website Hosting corporation. Now and then, depending on the invoicing platform (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting company is utilizing, the devoted customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Inconvenience Number Five: 120+ web hosting Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... briskly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting firms:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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