cPanel Hosting Revealed
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing precisely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace offer one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names in the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably fulfilled all web hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Disadvantage No.1: A moronic domain folder system
If you have two or more domains, though, be very careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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)
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 disorientated? We undeniably are!
Problem No.2: The very same email folder system
The email folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too irretrievably.
Weak Side No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain manipulation interfaces
Do we have to refer to the total lack of a contemporary domain name management interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" menu at all. That's a major weakness. An unforgettable one, we want to add...
Negative Point No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum two, max 3)
What about the need for another login to make use of the invoicing, domain and technical support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Hosting supplier. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction system (particularly built for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting company is utilizing, the earnest clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).
Disadvantage No.5: More than a hundred and twenty CP sections to grasp... swiftly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting firms:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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