What is cPanel Hosting?
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offers on today's hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which provides a big number of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace provide literally the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a normal chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 website hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly satisfied most website hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Shortcoming Number One: A moronic domain name folder configuration
If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)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 undoubtedly are!
Predicament Number Two: The same electronic mail folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly fortify their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too gravely.
Weak Side Number Three: A thorough absence of domain manipulation interfaces
Do we have to refer to the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a mammoth disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...
Weak Side Number 4: Many user login locations (min 2, max three)
What about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain and technical support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the invoicing platform (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting provider is making use of, the zealous clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).
Predicament Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP sections to memorize... briskly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting suppliers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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