What Actually is cPanel Hosting?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Hosting offers on the current website hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business niche, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market furnish literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met most website hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Downside No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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 becoming nonplussed? We categorically are!
Weakness No.2: The very same mail folder setup
The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.
Weak Side Number Three: A total absence of domain administration options
Do we need to mention the thorough deficiency of a modern domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a considerable downside. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...
Downside Number 4: Many user login locations (min two, maximum three)
What about the demand for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Hosting firm. Occasionally, based on the billing tool (especially tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting supplier is using, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).
Downside Number Five: 120+ web hosting CP departments to get familiar with... quickly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting firms:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...
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