What Does cPanel Web Hosting Stand for?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which supplies a big number of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace supply the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
200,000 "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
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The website hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 website hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the current 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 corporation is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based website hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled most website hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Point Number 1: A stupid domain name folder configuration
If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely attentive 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web server, because they all are located 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how amazing 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)
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 getting confused? We surely are!
Negative Sign Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too seriously.
Negative Side No.3: A total absence of domain administration menus
Do we have to cite the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" section at all. That's an immense drawback. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...
Negative Side Number Four: Many login locations (min two, maximum three)
What about the demand for an additional login to utilize the billing, domain name and technical support management system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting distributor. Sometimes, based on the billing system (particularly intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting provider is making use of, the ardent customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Shortcoming No.5: 120+ hosting CP departments to get familiar with... promptly
cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting service providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...