cPanel Web Hosting Description
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the entire website hosting market provide strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...
200k "website hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
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The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the current website hosting market is... Period.
The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel website hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met most web hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Sign No.1: A foolish domain name folder configuration
If you have two or more domain names, though, be very attentive 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). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are created 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 clearly are!
Downside No.2: The very same e-mail folder configuration
The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too harshly.
Downside Number Three: A total absence of domain manipulation interfaces
Do we need to cite the absolute deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" section at all. That's a gigantic inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...
Problem Number 4: Numerous user login places (min 2, max 3)
What about the need for an additional login to access the invoicing, domain and technical support management software solution? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting distributor. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction system (particularly built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting firm is making use of, the zealous customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management system; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Disadvantage Number 5: More than 120 website hosting CP departments to become familiar with... quickly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting suppliers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...