Definition of cPanel Hosting
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the entire web hosting market furnish the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...
200k "Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a regular person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 website hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied most web hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Drawback No.1: An idiotic domain folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra cautious 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 domains are quite easy to delete on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed 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. Discover for yourself how terrific 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 name)
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 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 becoming nonplussed? We surely are!
Disadvantage Number 2: The same mail folder system
The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too severely.
Negative Aspect Number 3: An absolute absence of domain administration menus
Do we need to bring up the absolute lack of a modern domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a major predicament. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...
Disadvantage No.4: Numerous login locations (min 2, maximum three)
How about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoicing, domain and tech support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Hosting firm. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction tool (principally devised for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting vendor is utilizing, the earnest users can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration platform; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).
Weak Point Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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