What Actually is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which provides a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing exactly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on today's hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps covered most web hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Inconvenience No.1: A moronic domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very attentive not to delete completely 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 domain names are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 name)
Are you becoming perplexed? We undeniably are!
Predicament Number Two: The very same e-mail folder system
The e-mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.
Negative Aspect Number 3: An absolute absence of domain name management GUIs
Do we need to point out the entire lack of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a big predicament. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...
Disadvantage Number Four: Numerous user login places (min 2, maximum 3)
How about the need for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain name and technical support management menu? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Website Hosting firm. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction system (particularly developed for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting vendor is utilizing, the zealous customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).
Weak Point No.5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel departments to pick up... swiftly
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting firms:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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