What Precisely is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting market furnish the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names across the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered all website hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Predicament No.1: A stupid domain folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 growing confused? We absolutely are!
Weak Point Number Two: The same email folder structure
The email folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly increase their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too seriously.
Disadvantage Number Three: An absolute absence of domain manipulation options
Do we need to mention the sheer absence of a modern domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" menu at all. That's a big inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...
Predicament Number 4: Multiple user login places (min 2, max 3)
How about the need for an extra login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Web Hosting corporation. At times, depending on the billing transaction platform (especially created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting service provider is utilizing, the enthusiastic users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Weak Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to grasp... swiftly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting vendors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...
Basic | Advanced | Value | Premier |
Unlimited storage | Unlimited storage | Unlimited storage | Unlimited storage |
Unlimited bandwidth | Unlimited bandwidth | Unlimited bandwidth | Unlimited bandwidth |
1 website hosted | 5 websites hosted | Unlimited websites hosted | Unlimited websites hosted |
30-Day Free Trial | 30-Day Free Trial | 30-Day Free Trial | 30-Day Free Trial |
$3.00 / month | $3.75 / month | $7.29 / month | $10.29 / month |