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What In Fact is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace provide literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200,000 "web hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 website hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names in the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel web hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled most website hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Side Number One: An idiotic domain folder setup
If you have two or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
Are you getting baffled? We undeniably are!
Inconvenience Number Two: The very same email folder arrangement
The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly increase their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too irreparably.
Negative Sign No.3: An absolute deficiency of domain name management menus
Do we need to bring up the total deficiency of a modern domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" section at all. That's a considerable drawback. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...
Disadvantage Number 4: Numerous login locations (min two, maximum 3)
How about the need for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting supplier. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing platform (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the avid users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management interface; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).
Weakness Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... rapidly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...