What Exactly is cPanel Hosting?
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace provide literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
The Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an ordinary guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brands in the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly satisfied most website hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Side No.1: A laughable domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domains, though, be very careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain 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 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 name)
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 confused? We absolutely are!
Negative Sign Number 2: The very same e-mail folder system
The mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.
Weak Point Number 3: A thorough shortage of domain name manipulation tools
Do we need to point out the sheer absence of a modern domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...
Negative Point Number Four: Numerous login places (min 2, maximum 3)
What about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Hosting distributor. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction system (particularly meant for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting vendor is availing of, the keen users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management menu; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).
Weak Point No.5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... quickly
cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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