Definition of cPanel Hosting
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offers on the current web hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a huge 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 hosting offers on the entire website hosting market supply one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...
200,000 "Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly covered all web hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Drawback Number One: A stupid domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 domain names, please. Discover for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 name)
Are you getting baffled? We undeniably are!
Negative Aspect Number 2: The same email folder configuration
The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly enhance their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too fatally.
Negative Point Number 3: An utter lack of domain name management sections
Do we need to bring up the sheer deficiency of a modern domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a big problem. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...
Shortcoming Number Four: Many login locations (min 2, maximum three)
How about the need for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Hosting provider. At times, based on the invoicing platform (especially developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting firm is utilizing, the avid users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Problem No.5: 120+ web hosting CP menus to learn... briskly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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