Explanation of cPanel Web Hosting
For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace supply the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200k "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
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The hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an average person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.
The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably answered most hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Disadvantage Number One: A foolish domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very attentive not to delete fully 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web server, because 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 is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe 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)
Are you growing disorientated? We unquestionably are!
Weak Side No.2: The very same email folder system
The mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly enhance their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too irreparably.
Negative Side Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain name manipulation user interfaces
Do we have to cite the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" tool at all. That's a considerable predicament. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...
Downside No.4: Numerous user login locations (min two, maximum three)
What about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting firm. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction tool (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting corporation is making use of, the enthusiastic users can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Weak Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them swiftly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting suppliers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...