What Precisely is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded
The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an average fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the contemporary website hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered all web hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Disadvantage Number One: A moronic domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 growing perplexed? We unquestionably are!
Problem Number 2: The same email folder configuration
The email folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.
Weakness Number 3: An absolute lack of domain administration sections
Do we need to bring up the entire deficiency of a modern domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" section at all. That's a considerable problem. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...
Weak Point No.4: Many login places (minimum two, max 3)
How about the need for another login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and technical support management software? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Website Hosting corporation. Occasionally, based on the billing system (especially conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting vendor is using, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).
Downside Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to memorize... promptly
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting vendors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...
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