What Does cPanel Hosting Denote?
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace supply the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200,000 "Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a normal bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands across the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on today's website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple math shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly met all web hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Problem Number 1: A moronic domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domains, however, be extra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name 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 name)
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 getting puzzled? We definitely are!
Negative Sign Number Two: The very same e-mail folder arrangement
The email folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their faith in God when managing the email folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too badly.
Downside Number 3: A complete lack of domain name administration menus
Do we have to point out the thorough shortage of a modern domain manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a big shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...
Weak Side Number Four: Numerous user login places (min 2, max 3)
How about the need for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Hosting firm. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing tool (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting provider is availing of, the eager users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain administration system; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Side No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP sections to become familiar with... fast
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting suppliers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
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