cPanel Hosting Explanation
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace supply the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
The Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names in the world will give you the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably met most web hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Side No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder arrangement
If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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)
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 becoming puzzled? We absolutely are!
Negative Aspect Number Two: The very same e-mail folder structure
The mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irretrievably.
Negative Side Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain administration interfaces
Do we need to refer to the thorough lack of a modern domain management platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a considerable predicament. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...
Negative Sign Number 4: Many login places (minimum two, max three)
How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Hosting provider. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction system (especially tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting company is using, the enthusiastic customers can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management tool; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Predicament Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to learn... briskly
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a superb idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting distributors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...
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