What Exactly is cPanel Hosting?
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Hosting offers on the current website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace provide the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200k "Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
The Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of 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 an ordinary guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present-day hosting market is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly fulfilled all web hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Problem Number 1: A laughable domain folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web 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 name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder system 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 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)
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)
Are you becoming confused? We certainly are!
Shortcoming Number Two: The same mail folder arrangement
The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irretrievably.
Drawback No.3: An absolute lack of domain administration options
Do we have to refer to the complete lack of a contemporary domain management menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" tool at all. That's a great weakness. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...
Inconvenience Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum two, max 3)
How about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the invoicing, domain and technical support management interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Hosting vendor. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting provider is making use of, the avid clients can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).
Inconvenience Number Five: 120+ web hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... rapidly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting suppliers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...
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