What Precisely is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace offer literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed
The Web Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on today's website hosting market is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably met most web hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Side Number 1: A moronic domain name folder system
If you have two or more domains, however, be extra careful not to remove completely 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 hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 name)
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 becoming confused? We certainly are!
Weak Point No.2: The very same email folder configuration
The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.
Negative Aspect No.3: A complete deficiency of domain name administration sections
Do we have to bring up the entire absence of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a big shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...
Problem No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, max 3)
What about the demand for an additional login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management section? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Web Hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the billing system (principally created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting distributor is utilizing, the devoted clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).
Weakness Number Five: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... briskly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting corporations:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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