Definition of cPanel Hosting
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offerings on today's web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace supply literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brands in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on today's website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met most website hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Side No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 fantastic cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 name)
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)
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 growing bewildered? We absolutely are!
Negative Side No.2: The same email folder structure
The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.
Weak Side No.3: An absolute shortage of domain name management GUIs
Do we have to mention the sheer shortage of a modern domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a colossal disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...
Downside Number Four: Many login places (min two, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (particularly meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting company is availing of, the devoted users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).
Downside Number Five: 120+ website hosting Control Panel departments to learn... swiftly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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