What In Fact is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on today's website hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business segment, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting market supply one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
200k "Web Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The Web Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a normal bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on today's web hosting market is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied most website hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Problem Number 1: A stupid domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the server, since they all are situated 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 located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name 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 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 nonplussed? We certainly are!
Negative Point Number Two: The very same mail folder system
The e-mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too seriously.
Negative Side Number 3: A total deficiency of domain name manipulation menus
Do we need to cite the complete lack of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a gigantic shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...
Weak Point Number Four: Numerous user login places (minimum two, max 3)
How about the demand for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain name and tech support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting supplier. Sometimes, based on the invoicing system (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting service provider is utilizing, the earnest users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).
Problem No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... fast
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting suppliers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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