What Exactly is cPanel Hosting?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which generates a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet offering precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market supply the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200,000 "Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The Hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 website hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day website hosting market is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered all web hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Point Number One: An idiotic domain name folder configuration
If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how great 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 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)
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 becoming disorientated? We clearly are!
Disadvantage No.2: The same e-mail folder configuration
The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irreparably.
Negative Point Number Three: A total lack of domain administration tools
Do we have to mention the absolute shortage of a modern domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a vast inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...
Disadvantage Number Four: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum three)
What about the necessity for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and tech support management system? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Hosting distributor. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting service provider is utilizing, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Downside Number Five: More than 120 web hosting CP departments to get familiar with... rapidly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting distributors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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