What Exactly is cPanel Hosting?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel Hosting offers on the current website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market offer the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present website hosting market is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled all hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Predicament Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)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 nonplussed? We clearly are!
Shortcoming Number 2: The very same e-mail folder configuration
The e-mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too harshly.
Negative Aspect Number 3: An entire shortage of domain management menus
Do we have to cite the entire deficiency of a modern domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...
Negative Sign No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, max three)
What about the need for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Hosting supplier. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction system (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting firm is availing of, the earnest clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Weak Point No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to become acquainted with... fast
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting distributors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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