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What Precisely is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business segment, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace provide one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200,000 "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names in the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.
The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled most web hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Point Number 1: A stupid domain folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the server, since they all are located 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 name)
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 getting bewildered? We absolutely are!
Negative Side Number 2: The very same email folder configuration
The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly increase their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too harshly.
Negative Aspect No.3: An utter lack of domain name administration GUIs
Do we have to cite the total deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" menu at all. That's a great disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we want to add...
Weak Point Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)
How about the demand for another login to use the billing, domain and tech support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting corporation. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction system (especially devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the earnest customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Sign Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to learn... rapidly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting vendors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...