What Actually is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on the present hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which generates a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace provide one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an ordinary guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k website hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brands around the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied most web hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Side No.1: A dumb domain folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, 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 web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name 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)
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)
Are you growing perplexed? We positively are!
Problem Number Two: The same electronic mail folder structure
The email folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too severely.
Negative Sign No.3: An utter deficiency of domain management GUIs
Do we have to mention the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a colossal downside. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...
Negative Side No.4: Many user login locations (minimum two, max 3)
How about the necessity for an additional login to access the billing, domain and tech support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Web Hosting firm. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting provider is utilizing, the devoted clients can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain management system; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).
Problem Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...
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