cPanel Hosting Unveiled
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace offer one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a normal chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day website hosting market is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied all web hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Disadvantage Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy 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 well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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)
Are you growing disorientated? We undoubtedly are!
Negative Aspect No.2: The very same mail folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too gravely.
Downside Number Three: A thorough lack of domain management GUIs
Do we need to cite the thorough absence of a modern domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a big weakness. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...
Weak Side Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, maximum three)
What about the need for another login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration user interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Hosting company. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (particularly made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting corporation is using, the keen users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management system; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Downside Number Five: More than 120 web hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... rapidly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, 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? Note that one as well...
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