What Does cPanel Hosting Denote?
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based Hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are furnished by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...
200k "Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
The Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the current web hosting market is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly satisfied all web hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weakness Number 1: A moronic domain folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to delete fully 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase 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 is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how good 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 name)
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 name)
Are you becoming nonplussed? We undeniably are!
Disadvantage Number Two: The very same email folder setup
The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too gravely.
Weakness No.3: A total deficiency of domain administration tools
Do we need to point out the utter shortage of a modern domain management platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a great disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...
Problem No.4: Multiple user login places (min two, max 3)
What about the necessity for an extra login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Hosting distributor. At times, depending on the billing transaction tool (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting distributor is making use of, the eager customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Drawback No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to pick up... promptly
cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting companies:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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