cPanel Hosting Definition
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: 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 provide one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200k "Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a regular bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 website hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present-day hosting market is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly covered most website hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Predicament Number One: A moronic domain folder setup
If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder setup is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)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 baffled? We certainly are!
Disadvantage Number 2: The very same email folder system
The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly enhance their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too gravely.
Negative Aspect Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain administration menus
Do we need to refer to the entire shortage of a modern domain name management user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...
Problem Number Four: Many login locations (min 2, max three)
How about the need for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Hosting company. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction system (particularly created for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting vendor is using, the enthusiastic customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Drawback No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... fast
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting companies:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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