What Indeed is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on today's website hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace offer exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/Control Panel choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
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The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names in the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled all hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Sign Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 easy to erase on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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 becoming disorientated? We clearly are!
Problem Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration
The email folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too gravely.
Downside Number Three: A complete deficiency of domain name administration options
Do we have to refer to the absolute deficiency of a modern domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" interface at all. That's a considerable problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...
Inconvenience Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain name and technical support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting company. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (especially developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting vendor is using, the zealous customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Downside Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to become familiar with... fast
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting service providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...