cPanel Hosting Definition
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business segment, which supplies an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200,000 "Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded
The Hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an average fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably satisfied most web hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Point No.1: An imbecilic domain folder configuration
If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent 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 hosting 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 name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name 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 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 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 perplexed? We absolutely are!
Weak Point Number Two: The same e-mail folder arrangement
The mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too gravely.
Negative Side Number Three: A total absence of domain name management options
Do we need to point out the total deficiency of a modern domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" section at all. That's a gigantic downside. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...
Negative Point No.4: Numerous login locations (min 2, max 3)
What about the necessity for another login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Hosting distributor. Sometimes, based on the billing tool (principally made for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting provider is using, the zealous customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain management software solution; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).
Inconvenience No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP areas to memorize... briskly
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting corporations:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...
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