What Actually is cPanel Hosting?
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which provides a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market furnish the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
200k "Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an ordinary guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 website hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands across the world will give you the same cPanel CP and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The pros and cons of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly satisfied most web hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Point Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
Are you getting nonplussed? We surely are!
Problem Number 2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement
The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.
Negative Point No.3: A total shortage of domain management user interfaces
Do we need to mention the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain management tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an enormous drawback. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...
Negative Aspect Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)
What about the necessity for another login to use the billing, domain name and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Hosting company. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (especially designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting vendor is utilizing, the avid customers can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Disadvantage No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to get familiar with... briskly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting service providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...
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