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What is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market provide the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands around the world will offer you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present website hosting market is... Period.
The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly met all website hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Sign No.1: A foolish domain folder structure
If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, 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 server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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)
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 clearly are!
Negative Side No.2: The same e-mail folder configuration
The mail folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irretrievably.
Negative Point Number Three: A total deficiency of domain manipulation GUIs
Do we have to refer to the utter lack of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" tool at all. That's a considerable shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we want to add...
Problem Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)
What about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and technical support management system? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting company. At times, based on the invoicing platform (particularly tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting firm is availing of, the avid clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Inconvenience No.5: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel menus to grasp... quickly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting suppliers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...