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What In Fact is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which generates a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace offer one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...
200k "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a regular chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k web hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands across the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel web hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled most web hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Point No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder system
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name 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)
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 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 undoubtedly are!
Weakness No.2: The same e-mail folder arrangement
The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly increase their faith in God when handling the email folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.
Weakness Number 3: A total deficiency of domain management tools
Do we need to refer to the utter lack of a contemporary domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an enormous predicament. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...
Drawback Number 4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)
How about the demand for an extra login to access the billing, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting firm. Now and then, based on the invoicing system (especially made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the devoted customers can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Negative Aspect Number Five: 120+ web hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... swiftly
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting service providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...