What Does cPanel Hosting Stand for?
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offers on the present web hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace provide one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
200,000 "Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
The Hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an ordinary bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k web hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands all over the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the contemporary website hosting market is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably met most hosting industry preconditions. 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 domains...
Negative Sign Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domains, though, be very careful not to remove completely 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 remove on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)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)
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 nonplussed? We surely are!
Weakness Number 2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement
The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly enhance their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too harshly.
Negative Point No.3: A total lack of domain administration GUIs
Do we need to mention the total absence of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" interface at all. That's a colossal problem. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...
Problem Number Four: Many user login places (minimum 2, max 3)
What about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Hosting provider. At times, based on the billing transaction platform (particularly made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting distributor is making use of, the keen customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Side No.5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... fast
cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting vendors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...
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