cPanel Hosting Description
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200k "Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a regular bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple math shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied all web hosting industry requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Point Number One: A stupid domain folder configuration
If you have two or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain 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)
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)
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 confused? We unquestionably are!
Negative Point Number Two: The very same mail folder structure
The email folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.
Predicament Number 3: An absolute absence of domain name administration GUIs
Do we need to point out the complete shortage of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" section at all. That's a vast disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...
Downside Number 4: Many login places (minimum 2, maximum three)
How about the demand for an extra login to access the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction system (especially tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting provider is making use of, the avid customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Sign Number Five: 120+ CP sections to become acquainted with... swiftly
cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, 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? Mind that one too...
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