What Precisely is cPanel Hosting?
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel Hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which supplies an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace furnish the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
200k "Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
The Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a regular guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably fulfilled most website hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Aspect Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder system
If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine 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 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 name)
Are you getting puzzled? We definitely are!
Negative Sign Number Two: The same electronic mail folder setup
The email folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly enhance their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too seriously.
Shortcoming No.3: An entire lack of domain name management sections
Do we need to point out the absolute shortage of a modern domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a mammoth disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...
Disadvantage No.4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max three)
What about the need for an extra login to access the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Hosting firm. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction tool (especially designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting supplier is availing of, the eager users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Disadvantage No.5: 120+ website hosting CP departments to get familiar with... rapidly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting vendors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...
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