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What Precisely is cPanel Hosting?
For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace supply one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...
200,000 "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed
The website hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an average person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names across the world will give you the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied most website hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weakness Number 1: A laughable domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra attentive not to remove 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 domain names are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
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)
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 baffled? We definitely are!
Weak Side No.2: The very same mail folder arrangement
The mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly increase their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.
Downside Number Three: A total lack of domain management menus
Do we need to point out the complete absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" section at all. That's a great drawback. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...
Drawback Number 4: Many user login places (min two, max three)
What about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration software solution? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting distributor. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing tool (principally developed for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting firm is utilizing, the zealous users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain management GUI; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Drawback Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP areas to become familiar with... swiftly
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting companies:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...