What Does cPanel Hosting Stand for?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel Hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market provide exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the current hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled most web hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Downside No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 name)
Are you becoming confused? We categorically are!
Inconvenience No.2: The very same e-mail folder system
The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly fortify their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too fatally.
Weak Side Number Three: A sheer shortage of domain manipulation menus
Do we need to cite the entire shortage of a modern domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an enormous predicament. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...
Shortcoming No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)
What about the necessity for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction system (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting supplier is utilizing, the eager clients can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Predicament Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to pick up... quickly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...
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