cPanel Website Hosting Description
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel Website Hosting offerings on today's hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded
The Website Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brands in the world will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably covered most website hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Drawback Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 name)
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 perplexed? We unquestionably are!
Drawback Number Two: The very same mail folder system
The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.
Negative Aspect Number Three: An utter absence of domain name administration tools
Do we have to refer to the utter lack of a contemporary domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...
Weakness No.4: Multiple user login locations (min two, maximum three)
What about the demand for another login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Website Hosting supplier. At times, depending on the invoicing system (especially devised for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting corporation is availing of, the zealous clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Drawback No.5: 120+ CP sections to become acquainted with... fast
cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting corporations:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...