cPanel Web Hosting Explanation
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the current hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which provides a big number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace offer precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
200k "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
Unlimited bandwidth
5 websites hosted
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Unlimited bandwidth
Unlimited websites hosted
30-Day Free Trial
The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands in the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the current hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps answered most website hosting business demands. 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...
Disadvantage Number 1: A laughable domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 quite simple to remove on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 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 growing nonplussed? We clearly are!
Weak Side Number 2: The same e-mail folder structure
The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly strengthen their faith in God when managing the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too gravely.
Problem No.3: An entire deficiency of domain name management menus
Do we have to refer to the entire absence of a contemporary domain management platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a huge inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...
Inconvenience No.4: Numerous user login locations (min two, max 3)
What about the need for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing system (principally tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel hosting distributor is making use of, the eager users can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Side Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... promptly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting CP. It's a fine idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting firms:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...