What In Fact is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting market offer one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably fulfilled most web hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Sign Number 1: A moronic domain 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 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)
Are you becoming nonplussed? We categorically are!
Negative Sign No.2: The very same e-mail folder configuration
The email folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly fortify their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.
Negative Aspect Number 3: A complete lack of domain manipulation options
Do we have to refer to the thorough lack of a modern domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" menu at all. That's a vast problem. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...
Predicament Number Four: Multiple user login places (min 2, maximum three)
How about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the invoicing, domain and technical support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Website Hosting distributor. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing platform (especially tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting supplier is using, the avid customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Drawback Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... swiftly
cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting firms:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...