What is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your info, it’s good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the hosting offers on the whole website hosting market furnish the same thing: cPanel. There’s no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one…
200k “Web Hosting companies”, all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The Web Hosting “variety” and the web hosting “offerings” Google presents to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100’s of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an ordinary chap who’s not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here’s where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That’s how large the variety on today’s website hosting marketplace is… Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty…
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let’s not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably met all web hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains…
Negative Aspect No.1: An idiotic domain folder structure
If you have two or more domains, though, be very cautious 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 domains are very easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how good cPanel’s domain folder setup 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 name)
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 getting disorientated? We doubtlessly are!
Weak Side Number Two: The same mail folder structure
The email folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domains… Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too badly.
Negative Side Number Three: A complete absence of domain management tools
Do we need to mention the entire deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation platform – a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names’ Whois information, secure the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a “modern” section at all. That’s a major shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out…
Weakness Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, max three)
What about the necessity for another login to access the billing, domain name and technical support administration software solution? That’s aside from the cPanel account login credentials you’ve been already provided by the cPanel-based Web Hosting provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (especially developed for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting distributor is using, the keen customers can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).
Weak Side No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to learn… promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It’s a fine idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you’d better pick them up quickly… That’s way too insolent on cPanel’s side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting companies:
As far as we are informed, it’s not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well…
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