What Does cPanel Hosting Denote?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing precisely the same solutions: 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 entire website hosting market offer literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
200,000 "Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can select? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brands in the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on today's web hosting market is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably covered all website hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Drawback Number One: A stupid domain folder setup
If you have two or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent 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 set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder system 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 name)
Are you getting puzzled? We definitely are!
Drawback No.2: The very same e-mail folder configuration
The mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly strengthen their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irreparably.
Problem No.3: An entire deficiency of domain management sections
Do we need to point out the entire absence of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" section at all. That's a vast problem. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...
Disadvantage No.4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, max three)
What about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Hosting vendor. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction tool (principally devised for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting firm is availing of, the earnest clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Shortcoming No.5: More than 120 hosting CP areas to grasp... quickly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting companies:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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