Explanation of cPanel Hosting
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offerings on the present website hosting marketplace are provided by a very insignificant business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet providing exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole hosting market supply the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an average person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied most website hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Point Number One: A laughable domain folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase 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 name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name 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)
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)
Are you getting disorientated? We undeniably are!
Inconvenience Number 2: The same mail folder setup
The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.
Disadvantage No.3: A complete lack of domain manipulation interfaces
Do we have to cite the absolute absence of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's an immense downside. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...
Negative Side Number Four: Many login places (min two, max 3)
How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Hosting service provider. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction platform (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting corporation is using, the enthusiastic users can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).
Weakness Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... swiftly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting service providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
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