What Exactly is cPanel Hosting?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offers on the present-day hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace supply the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
The Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an ordinary person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands in the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered most website hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Side No.1: A dumb domain folder setup
If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe 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)
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 growing puzzled? We undoubtedly are!
Shortcoming Number Two: The same mail folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly fortify their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too badly.
Negative Sign No.3: A total absence of domain name administration options
Do we have to bring up the total shortage of a modern domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a mammoth drawback. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...
Predicament Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max three)
How about the need for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Hosting firm. At times, on the basis of the invoicing platform (particularly intended for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting company is making use of, the keen users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Sign Number Five: 120+ website hosting Control Panel areas to grasp... rapidly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting suppliers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...
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