What Actually is cPanel Hosting?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel Hosting offers on today's website hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish one and the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on today's hosting market is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled all website hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Inconvenience Number 1: A moronic domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder system 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 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)
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 becoming disorientated? We unquestionably are!
Inconvenience No.2: The same electronic mail folder system
The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too badly.
Shortcoming Number Three: An utter shortage of domain management options
Do we need to point out the total absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" menu at all. That's a major inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...
Problem Number 4: Many login locations (min 2, maximum 3)
What about the need for an extra login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction system (especially made for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting vendor is availing of, the enthusiastic users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).
Negative Side No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... promptly
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting service providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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