What is cPanel Hosting?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which generates a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace offer strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
200,000 "Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
The Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a regular guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps satisfied all hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Point Number One: A stupid domain folder structure
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra watchful 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 baffled? We clearly are!
Inconvenience No.2: The same e-mail folder setup
The email folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly enhance their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too irretrievably.
Weakness No.3: A total absence of domain name manipulation options
Do we need to mention the total shortage of a modern domain management tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" section at all. That's a gigantic inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...
Predicament No.4: Numerous login places (min 2, max three)
What about the demand for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management system? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction tool (principally designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting corporation is making use of, the eager customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Downside Number 5: More than 120 CP sections to become familiar with... promptly
cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, 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? Remark that one too...
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