cPanel Hosting Explanation
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: mostly 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 whole web hosting marketplace provide literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
200,000 "Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The Hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a normal bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names worldwide will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on today's hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly covered most web hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Sign Number 1: A laughable domain folder configuration
If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 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 name)
Are you becoming bewildered? We unquestionably are!
Weak Side Number 2: The very same email folder arrangement
The email folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too harshly.
Weak Point Number 3: A complete absence of domain manipulation interfaces
Do we have to bring up the total deficiency of a modern domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" menu at all. That's a major disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...
Downside No.4: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum three)
What about the demand for another login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing tool (especially tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting service provider is making use of, the zealous clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).
Disadvantage Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... quickly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting companies:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...
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