What is cPanel Hosting?
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offerings on the present website hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace provide literally the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/CP option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...
200,000 "Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed
The Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a normal guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brand names around the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed 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 LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps satisfied most web hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Shortcoming No.1: A foolish domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web server, since they all are set up 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 puzzled? We absolutely are!
Negative Aspect No.2: The very same electronic mail folder structure
The email folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.
Negative Sign Number Three: An absolute absence of domain name manipulation options
Do we need to refer to the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" tool at all. That's a vast disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...
Disadvantage Number 4: Many login locations (min 2, maximum three)
What about the demand for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management software? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing system (principally intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting service provider is using, the eager users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Downside Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to learn... rapidly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting CP. It's a fine idea to learn each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting firms:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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