What Indeed is cPanel Hosting?
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel Hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying precisely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace offer precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200k "Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an average chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 website hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present website hosting market is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably met all website hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Problem Number 1: A moronic domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, 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 hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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)
Are you getting puzzled? We surely are!
Inconvenience No.2: The same email folder configuration
The mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.
Negative Sign Number 3: A complete shortage of domain manipulation interfaces
Do we need to refer to the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a considerable inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...
Weak Point Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum two, maximum 3)
How about the need for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Hosting vendor. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction platform (principally meant for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting supplier is availing of, the avid users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Downside Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... quickly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's extremely insolent 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? Remark that one as well...
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