Definition of cPanel Hosting
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offers on today's hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market furnish strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...
200k "Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
The Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names all over the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the contemporary website hosting market is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly fulfilled all website hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Predicament Number 1: A moronic domain folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very attentive not to erase entirely 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). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the server, since 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 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. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder structure 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 name)
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)
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 categorically are!
Drawback Number 2: The very same email folder setup
The email folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly reinforce their faith in God when managing the email folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.
Disadvantage Number 3: A thorough deficiency of domain name management tools
Do we need to bring up the utter absence of a modern domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a big inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...
Negative Aspect Number Four: Numerous login places (min two, max three)
What about the demand for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Hosting provider. Now and then, based on the invoicing system (principally developed for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting corporation is using, the zealous users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Sign No.5: More than 120 Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... quickly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting suppliers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
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