What Does cPanel Hosting Represent?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel Hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire hosting market provide absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200,000 "Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps answered most website hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Drawback Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder structure
If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, because 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 is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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)
Are you getting disorientated? We certainly are!
Drawback Number Two: The same email folder setup
The e-mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly fortify their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.
Predicament Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain administration interfaces
Do we have to refer to the complete shortage of a modern domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" menu at all. That's a major predicament. An unforgivable one, we want to add...
Negative Side Number 4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, maximum three)
How about the need for another login to avail of the invoicing, domain and technical support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Hosting firm. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction platform (especially developed for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting firm is utilizing, the eager customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Weak Point Number Five: 120+ web hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... briskly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, 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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