What Precisely is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on the current website hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace offer one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/Control Panel option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200k "Website Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 website hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different website hosting brands in the world will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably covered most web hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weakness No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder system
If you have two or more domains, though, be extra careful not to delete 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 quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder setup is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)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 growing confused? We doubtlessly are!
Negative Point Number 2: The same mail folder configuration
The mail folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too fatally.
Problem Number Three: A thorough absence of domain administration GUIs
Do we have to bring up the thorough lack of a modern domain name administration user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" section at all. That's a big weakness. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...
Negative Sign No.4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max 3)
What about the need for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Website Hosting corporation. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction system (particularly devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting provider is utilizing, the earnest customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).
Drawback No.5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... rapidly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting vendors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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