What Indeed is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which supplies an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market furnish precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered all web hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Point Number One: A foolish domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra careful not to delete fully 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 simple to delete on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 domain names, please. Decide for yourself how good 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)
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 becoming confused? We definitely are!
Negative Aspect Number 2: The same e-mail folder configuration
The email folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly fortify their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too irreparably.
Negative Point Number 3: An entire absence of domain management user interfaces
Do we need to refer to the sheer shortage of a modern domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" interface at all. That's a considerable predicament. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...
Downside Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min two, max three)
What about the necessity for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the billing system (particularly made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting service provider is using, the zealous clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).
Predicament Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to memorize... rapidly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting companies:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...
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