cPanel Hosting Defined
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based Hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole hosting market furnish the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an average person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different hosting brand names worldwide will give you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present-day website hosting market is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met all web hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Drawback Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, because 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 is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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)
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 perplexed? We certainly are!
Disadvantage Number Two: The very same email folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly increase their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too severely.
Negative Side Number Three: A thorough absence of domain manipulation interfaces
Do we need to point out the utter absence of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a great weakness. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...
Negative Side Number 4: Many login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)
What about the demand for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain and tech support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Hosting distributor. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction tool (especially devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting distributor is using, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Disadvantage No.5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel sections to get familiar with... promptly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the CP. It's a wonderful idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting firms:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...
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