What is cPanel Hosting?
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace provide exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200,000 "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
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The website hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brands in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on today's hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The website hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel website hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly satisfied all website hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Side No.1: An imbecilic domain folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to remove entirely 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 domains are quite simple to delete on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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. Decide for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 growing puzzled? We positively are!
Predicament No.2: The very same e-mail folder system
The email folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.
Problem Number 3: An absolute absence of domain name manipulation sections
Do we have to mention the sheer absence of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" menu at all. That's a gigantic predicament. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...
Negative Point Number Four: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)
How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration user interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. Occasionally, based on the invoicing system (principally devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting supplier is availing of, the keen users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Point Number 5: 120+ Control Panel areas to get familiar with... fast
cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting suppliers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...