What Actually is cPanel Hosting?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace supply exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200k "Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed
The Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a normal bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 website hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably satisfied most website hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Drawback No.1: A dumb domain folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very attentive 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 server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)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 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)
Are you becoming bewildered? We categorically are!
Disadvantage No.2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration
The e-mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.
Shortcoming Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain management options
Do we have to bring up the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a considerable weakness. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...
Negative Point Number Four: Numerous login locations (min two, max 3)
How about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and tech support management menu? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Hosting provider. At times, on the basis of the billing tool (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting supplier is utilizing, the earnest users can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management section; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Inconvenience Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to memorize... promptly
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting corporations:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
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