Definition of cPanel Hosting
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel Hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which provides a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting CP option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...
200,000 "Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a normal person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on today's hosting market is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met most web hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Aspect Number One: A stupid domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to erase 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 domain names are very easy to erase on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder structure 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 name)
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 disorientated? We undoubtedly are!
Problem Number Two: The same e-mail folder system
The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly fortify their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too fatally.
Problem No.3: An utter deficiency of domain name administration GUIs
Do we have to point out the total shortage of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a colossal disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...
Problem Number 4: Numerous login locations (min 2, max three)
How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the invoicing, domain and technical support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the invoicing system (especially tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting firm is utilizing, the eager clients can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Disadvantage No.5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... quickly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...
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