Definition of cPanel Website Hosting
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market offer precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel CP and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied most hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Point Number One: A ludicrous domain folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name 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)
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)
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 growing nonplussed? We absolutely are!
Weakness No.2: The same email folder arrangement
The mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too irretrievably.
Weakness Number Three: An entire lack of domain name administration menus
Do we have to point out the sheer lack of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" menu at all. That's a gigantic problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...
Negative Sign Number 4: Many login places (minimum 2, maximum three)
How about the demand for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Website Hosting vendor. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction system (especially created for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting distributor is using, the enthusiastic users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Inconvenience Number Five: 120+ web hosting Control Panel menus to learn... briskly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...
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