Explanation of cPanel Hosting
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel Hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace offer precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200k "Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are just a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brand names in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied all web hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Inconvenience No.1: A dumb domain folder system
If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 baffled? We absolutely are!
Negative Point Number 2: The same electronic mail folder setup
The email folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly increase their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.
Inconvenience Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain name manipulation user interfaces
Do we have to mention the utter lack of a modern domain management GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" menu at all. That's a considerable downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...
Predicament Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)
How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain and tech support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Hosting supplier. Occasionally, depending on the billing tool (principally invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting distributor is making use of, the devoted customers can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).
Negative Aspect No.5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... quickly
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting suppliers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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