What Exactly is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed
The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k web hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names around the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel web hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly answered all hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weakness Number One: A foolish domain folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder system is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)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)
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 getting baffled? We unquestionably are!
Problem Number Two: The same e-mail folder configuration
The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly fortify their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too gravely.
Disadvantage Number 3: An utter absence of domain name management GUIs
Do we need to point out the utter shortage of a modern domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" menu at all. That's an enormous downside. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...
Predicament Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, max 3)
What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management menu? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting company. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (particularly invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the eager clients can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration system; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).
Negative Aspect Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... fast
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...