What is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting market provide one and the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
The Web Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an ordinary chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names in the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled most website hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Inconvenience Number One: A moronic domain name folder system
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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. Decide for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)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 getting confused? We definitely are!
Negative Aspect Number Two: The same e-mail folder setup
The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too fatally.
Negative Aspect Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain name management user interfaces
Do we have to bring up the thorough absence of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a considerable predicament. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...
Downside No.4: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum three)
How about the demand for another login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting distributor. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction system (especially designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting company is using, the keen customers can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Side Number 5: 120+ web hosting CP departments to get to know... fast
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting firms:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...
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