What Actually is cPanel Hosting?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business segment, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k website hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably covered all website hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Drawback Number One: A laughable domain name folder system
If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated 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 terrific cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 absolutely are!
Disadvantage Number 2: The same electronic mail folder setup
The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.
Weak Side Number Three: A sheer deficiency of domain name manipulation tools
Do we need to point out the complete lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a big downside. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...
Shortcoming Number 4: Numerous login places (min 2, max three)
How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction platform (particularly meant for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting provider is utilizing, the keen customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Weak Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to grasp... quickly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...
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