What is cPanel Hosting?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based Hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market furnish exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
The Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 website hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled all website hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weakness No.1: A foolish domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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)
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 puzzled? We absolutely are!
Inconvenience No.2: The very same e-mail folder structure
The mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly fortify their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.
Downside No.3: A complete lack of domain management tools
Do we have to mention the sheer deficiency of a modern domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" menu at all. That's a vast predicament. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...
Inconvenience Number Four: Many user login places (min 2, max 3)
What about the need for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Hosting corporation. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction platform (particularly meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting service provider is making use of, the earnest clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain management user interface; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).
Problem Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting vendors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
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