What Indeed is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are supplied by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet offering absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace offer the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200k "Website Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
The Website Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a normal chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and online 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 200k web hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple math shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled most website hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Point Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder setup
If you have two or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 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 disorientated? We certainly are!
Shortcoming No.2: The same e-mail folder structure
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly enhance their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too gravely.
Predicament Number 3: A thorough deficiency of domain administration tools
Do we have to cite the complete lack of a contemporary domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an enormous weakness. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...
Negative Aspect Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min two, max 3)
What about the need for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Website Hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction platform (principally created for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting distributor is availing of, the keen customers can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name management GUI; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).
Problem Number 5: 120+ CP departments to get acquainted with... fast
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting vendors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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