cPanel Website Hosting Description
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present website hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the whole hosting market provide absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
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Unlimited bandwidth
Unlimited websites hosted
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The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an average guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled most web hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Drawback Number One: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement
If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to erase fully 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). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 confused? We unquestionably are!
Drawback Number 2: The very same mail folder structure
The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too gravely.
Drawback No.3: A complete shortage of domain administration sections
Do we have to refer to the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a big weakness. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...
Weakness Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)
How about the need for another login to access the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting corporation. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction platform (principally made for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting supplier is making use of, the keen users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain administration system; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Side Number Five: 120+ web hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... swiftly
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the Control Panel. It's a fine idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting vendors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...