What Exactly is cPanel Hosting?
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel Hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business niche, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market provide exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
200,000 "Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 website hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names around the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps answered all web hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Side Number One: A stupid domain folder configuration
If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 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 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 confused? We categorically are!
Disadvantage No.2: The very same email folder setup
The email folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too fatally.
Weakness No.3: A sheer absence of domain name manipulation interfaces
Do we need to bring up the entire deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" section at all. That's a great inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...
Weak Side No.4: Many user login locations (min two, maximum three)
How about the demand for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (especially intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting firm is utilizing, the eager users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).
Drawback Number 5: 120+ website hosting CP departments to get to know... promptly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to learn each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting distributors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...
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