What Does cPanel Web Hosting Mean?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing exactly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market offer absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...
200k "Web Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed
The Web Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a regular bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the current hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled most website hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Downside No.1: A foolish domain folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new 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 erase on the web hosting server, since they all are located 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 located 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. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)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 name)
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 bewildered? We unquestionably are!
Disadvantage No.2: The same email folder setup
The mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too fatally.
Weakness Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain name management tools
Do we have to bring up the utter absence of a modern domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a major problem. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...
Problem No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)
How about the need for another login to use the billing, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Web Hosting provider. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction system (especially devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting distributor is utilizing, the avid clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Sign Number 5: More than 120 hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... fast
cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting corporations:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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