Explanation of cPanel Hosting
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based Hosting offerings on the present website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market provide the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands in the world will give you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied most web hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Point No.1: A foolish domain name folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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 delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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 growing puzzled? We surely are!
Drawback No.2: The very same mail folder configuration
The email folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too fatally.
Negative Aspect Number 3: An utter absence of domain name administration options
Do we have to bring up the absolute lack of a contemporary domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a great disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...
Downside No.4: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)
How about the need for an extra login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Hosting supplier. Occasionally, depending on the billing system (particularly built for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting service provider is utilizing, the keen users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Predicament No.5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... swiftly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting service providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...
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