What is cPanel Hosting?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offers on the current website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace offer precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2%, note that one...
200,000 "Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an ordinary chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names all over the world will give you the very same cPanel CP and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met most hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Disadvantage No.1: An idiotic domain folder structure
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to remove entirely 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder setup 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 getting confused? We undeniably are!
Inconvenience No.2: The very same e-mail folder structure
The electronic mail folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly increase their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too badly.
Negative Aspect Number 3: An entire shortage of domain name manipulation GUIs
Do we need to cite the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a huge problem. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...
Weakness Number 4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)
What about the demand for an extra login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction platform (particularly tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting corporation is availing of, the avid users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Weak Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to get familiar with... rapidly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a fine idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, 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...
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