What is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on today's hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing exactly 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 whole website hosting market furnish exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/hosting CP choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200k "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
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The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an ordinary guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel website hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably satisfied most web hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Drawback Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder system
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent 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, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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)
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 perplexed? We categorically are!
Negative Aspect Number 2: The same e-mail folder system
The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too harshly.
Negative Point Number 3: A thorough absence of domain name administration tools
Do we need to cite the entire lack of a modern domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a colossal problem. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...
Negative Side No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, maximum three)
How about the demand for an extra login to access the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. At times, depending on the invoicing platform (particularly invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting provider is using, the zealous users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain management system; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).
Weakness Number 5: More than 120 web hosting CP menus to become familiar with... quickly
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting vendors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...