Definition of cPanel Hosting
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present web hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet offering precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace supply the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
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The web hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.
The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably satisfied all web hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weakness Number 1: A laughable domain name folder arrangement
If you have two or more domains, though, be extra careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are set up 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how good 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)
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 becoming bewildered? We positively are!
Problem Number Two: The same e-mail folder setup
The e-mail folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too irretrievably.
Inconvenience Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain administration menus
Do we need to mention the absolute absence of a contemporary domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a huge drawback. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...
Disadvantage No.4: Numerous login locations (min 2, max 3)
What about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting service provider. At times, depending on the invoice transaction platform (principally conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the eager clients can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain name administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).
Shortcoming Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty CP sections to become acquainted with... quickly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting distributors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...