What Precisely is cPanel Hosting?
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace offer exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only a 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, mind that one...
200k "Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are only a normal guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 website hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple math shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met all website hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Side Number 1: A moronic domain folder system
If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the server, since they all are placed 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous 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)
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 baffled? We clearly are!
Drawback Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement
The mail folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too seriously.
Weak Point Number 3: An entire absence of domain name administration GUIs
Do we have to cite the sheer lack of a contemporary domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a major shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...
Drawback Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)
What about the need for an extra login to access the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Hosting firm. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting provider is utilizing, the zealous users can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).
Predicament Number 5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel departments to pick up... promptly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting companies:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...
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