What Exactly is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on the current hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace supply exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The Website Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied all hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Side Number 1: A moronic domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very careful not to delete 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 domain names are very easy to remove on the web server, because they all are placed 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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)
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 getting confused? We surely are!
Shortcoming No.2: The very same mail folder arrangement
The email folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly strengthen their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.
Drawback Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain manipulation user interfaces
Do we have to mention the total lack of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" section at all. That's a big predicament. An inexcusable one, we want to add...
Shortcoming Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min two, max three)
What about the need for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Website Hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the billing system (especially developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting provider is availing of, the keen customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).
Weak Side Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to learn... quickly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to learn each of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting vendors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...
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