What In Fact is cPanel Hosting?
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which supplies a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole hosting market provide exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200k "Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on today's web hosting market is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably answered all web hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Aspect No.1: A stupid domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name 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 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 name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
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 name)
Are you becoming confused? We positively are!
Negative Aspect Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder system
The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly enhance their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.
Weak Point No.3: An entire shortage of domain name management GUIs
Do we have to bring up the sheer lack of a modern domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a gigantic downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...
Weak Point Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)
How about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the billing, domain and tech support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Hosting firm. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (particularly developed for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting distributor is making use of, the devoted customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).
Predicament No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel areas to become familiar with... swiftly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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