Definition of cPanel Hosting
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which generates a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace offer the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The Hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current website hosting market is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied most web hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, 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 1: A foolish domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove 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 located 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. Decide for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain 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)
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 name)
Are you becoming disorientated? We absolutely are!
Weak Point No.2: The very same email folder setup
The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly increase their belief in God when managing the email folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.
Drawback Number 3: A thorough deficiency of domain name manipulation GUIs
Do we need to point out the entire lack of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a great drawback. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...
Predicament Number 4: Multiple user login places (min two, maximum 3)
How about the demand for an extra login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Hosting distributor. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing platform (particularly built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting vendor is making use of, the avid users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain management user interface; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Weak Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... promptly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, 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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