What Does cPanel Website Hosting Stand for?
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace provide strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...
200k "Website Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The Website Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a normal chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands all over the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably answered all web hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Disadvantage No.1: An idiotic domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are set up 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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 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 name)
Are you becoming confused? We clearly are!
Inconvenience Number 2: The very same mail folder system
The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly fortify their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irreparably.
Drawback No.3: A thorough lack of domain name administration options
Do we have to cite the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" interface at all. That's a colossal inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...
Shortcoming Number Four: Many login places (minimum two, max 3)
How about the need for another login to access the billing transaction, domain and technical support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Website Hosting service provider. At times, depending on the billing transaction platform (principally designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting corporation is availing of, the enthusiastic users can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain name management GUI; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Negative Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... swiftly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting service providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...
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