cPanel Website Hosting Defined
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the present hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace provide one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
200k "web hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
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The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a regular fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can select? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k web hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names in the world will give you literally the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel web hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled all web hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Shortcoming No.1: A dumb domain folder configuration
If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to erase completely 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). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain 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 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 name)
Are you becoming disorientated? We absolutely are!
Drawback Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder system
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly fortify their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too severely.
Weakness Number 3: An entire absence of domain name administration menus
Do we have to point out the sheer lack of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we want to add...
Weakness No.4: Many user login locations (min 2, max three)
What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the billing system (principally invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name management GUI; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Weak Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP sections to get familiar with... rapidly
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...