What Precisely is cPanel Hosting?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based Hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/hosting CP choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2%, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an ordinary bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k web hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled most website hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Problem Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to delete fully 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 domains are very simple to delete on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain 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)
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 becoming disorientated? We undoubtedly are!
Negative Sign Number 2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.
Negative Side No.3: A total shortage of domain name administration user interfaces
Do we have to point out the total lack of a modern domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a vast shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...
Disadvantage Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Hosting service provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (principally devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting provider is availing of, the ardent clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management section; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).
Problem Number 5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel menus to learn... rapidly
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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