What Precisely is cPanel Hosting?
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market provide exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/CP alternative. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...
200k "Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an average guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names around the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied most website hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Downside No.1: An idiotic domain folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 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 getting perplexed? We surely are!
Predicament Number 2: The same email folder system
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly enhance their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too fatally.
Negative Side Number 3: A complete shortage of domain management options
Do we need to refer to the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" interface at all. That's a considerable drawback. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...
Weakness No.4: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum three)
What about the need for another login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Hosting vendor. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction system (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting provider is making use of, the devoted clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Aspect Number Five: 120+ Control Panel areas to grasp... swiftly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting suppliers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...
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