cPanel Website Hosting Disclosed
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace supply exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an ordinary chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names across the world will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present-day hosting market is... Period.
The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably met most website hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Point Number One: An idiotic domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 delete on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder system 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 name)
Are you becoming confused? We positively are!
Weak Side Number 2: The same email folder system
The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly enhance their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too severely.
Disadvantage Number Three: A sheer lack of domain administration tools
Do we need to cite the absolute lack of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" interface at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...
Inconvenience No.4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting firm. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing platform (particularly invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel website hosting firm is utilizing, the avid clients can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Shortcoming No.5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... fast
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...