How cPanel Hosting Operates
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel Hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which provides a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
200,000 "Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
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 web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an ordinary bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names in the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary website hosting market is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled all website hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Aspect Number One: A foolish domain folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how excellent 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)
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)
Are you growing confused? We certainly are!
Negative Point Number Two: The same electronic mail folder system
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly reinforce their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irretrievably.
Negative Side No.3: An entire lack of domain administration GUIs
Do we have to cite the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an immense weakness. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...
Negative Aspect Number Four: Many user login places (min 2, max three)
What about the need for an extra login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Hosting service provider. At times, depending on the invoicing tool (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting corporation is using, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).
Inconvenience No.5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel departments to grasp... promptly
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting suppliers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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