What is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present web hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which provides an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
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Unlimited bandwidth
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The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a regular chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique hosting brands worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current website hosting market is... Full stop.
The web hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered all web hosting industry preconditions. 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...
Predicament No.1: A ludicrous domain folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 erase on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. Verify for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 becoming confused? We unquestionably are!
Disadvantage No.2: The same email folder configuration
The e-mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly increase their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.
Drawback No.3: A sheer absence of domain management interfaces
Do we need to bring up the total deficiency of a modern domain name administration GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a considerable disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we want to add...
Weak Point Number 4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management section? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting company. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction system (particularly devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the avid customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).
Disadvantage Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to learn... fast
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's quite insolent 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 aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...