cPanel Hosting Clarified
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offerings on today's website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which provides an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace provide the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...
200k "Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel CP and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered most website hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Downside Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 name)
Are you becoming nonplussed? We positively are!
Weak Point No.2: The very same mail folder setup
The mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too fatally.
Problem Number 3: A complete lack of domain manipulation GUIs
Do we need to refer to the complete absence of a modern domain name management user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a mammoth predicament. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...
Shortcoming No.4: Multiple user login locations (min two, max 3)
How about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management software? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Hosting company. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (especially developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting firm is using, the earnest clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Predicament Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to get to know... quickly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting suppliers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
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