Description of cPanel Hosting
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offerings on today's website hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which supplies an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting market furnish one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200k "Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names across the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied all web hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weakness No.1: A foolish domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to erase completely 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). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 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 getting puzzled? We unquestionably are!
Weakness No.2: The same e-mail folder setup
The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too irretrievably.
Weak Side Number 3: An entire absence of domain manipulation GUIs
Do we have to bring up the total absence of a modern domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a considerable shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...
Inconvenience Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum two, max three)
How about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Hosting firm. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction system (especially developed for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting supplier is making use of, the zealous users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name management software platform; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Shortcoming Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... quickly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, 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? Mark that one too...
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