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What is cPanel Hosting?
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel website hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market furnish strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just 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 two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...
200,000 "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an average person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names across the world will give you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on today's website hosting market is... Period.
The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled most web hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Sign Number 1: A moronic domain name folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular 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 domain names, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
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)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
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 getting confused? We unquestionably are!
Weakness Number 2: The same e-mail folder system
The email folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly reinforce their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too seriously.
Drawback No.3: An entire shortage of domain name manipulation user interfaces
Do we have to cite the total deficiency of a modern domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a huge shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...
Weak Side No.4: Numerous login locations (min two, maximum three)
How about the need for an extra login to access the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based website hosting distributor. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction platform (particularly developed for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting supplier is making use of, the earnest users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Weak Point Number 5: More than 120 web hosting CP areas to pick up... briskly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting service providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...