cPanel Hosting Unveiled
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting market furnish one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The Hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands worldwide will give you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present hosting market is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met all website hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Side Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder system
If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to remove fully 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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 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 bewildered? We surely are!
Drawback Number 2: The very same mail folder system
The email folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irreparably.
Negative Side Number Three: A sheer absence of domain name management user interfaces
Do we need to bring up the entire deficiency of a modern domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" interface at all. That's a vast predicament. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...
Drawback Number 4: Numerous login locations (min two, max three)
What about the need for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain and technical support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Hosting supplier. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction system (particularly devised for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting corporation is utilizing, the devoted clients can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Weakness No.5: 120+ web hosting CP departments to get to know... fast
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel 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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