Definition of cPanel Hosting
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market provide absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded
The Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a normal bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names across the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled all website hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Inconvenience No.1: A moronic domain name folder setup
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to delete completely 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 very simple to erase on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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 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 clearly are!
Predicament No.2: The very same mail folder structure
The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly increase their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too fatally.
Downside Number Three: An absolute lack of domain name management user interfaces
Do we need to refer to the utter shortage of a modern domain name management interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a big problem. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...
Negative Aspect No.4: Numerous login locations (min two, max three)
What about the demand for another login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing system (particularly devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting corporation is availing of, the eager clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).
Problem Number Five: More than 120 Control Panel sections to get to know... swiftly
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the web hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...
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