cPanel Hosting Explanation
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offers on the contemporary hosting marketplace are generated by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire hosting market offer exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200k "Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names all over the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met most web hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Point Number One: A foolish domain name folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent 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 delete on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 growing baffled? We definitely are!
Problem Number Two: The same electronic mail folder arrangement
The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly enhance their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.
Negative Point Number 3: An utter deficiency of domain administration menus
Do we have to mention the utter lack of a modern domain management interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a mammoth disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...
Drawback Number Four: Numerous login places (min two, max 3)
What about the need for an additional login to access the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction tool (especially made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting company is using, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Predicament Number Five: 120+ web hosting CP menus to grasp... briskly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting service providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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