What Does cPanel Hosting Signify?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offers on the current web hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market furnish literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...
200,000 "Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names around the world will give you the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on today's website hosting market is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably answered all hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Point Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the server, since they all are placed 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
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)
Are you growing disorientated? We categorically are!
Negative Side No.2: The very same email folder structure
The e-mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly strengthen their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.
Negative Point No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain administration options
Do we need to bring up the total absence of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" tool at all. That's a considerable drawback. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...
Predicament Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min two, max three)
What about the need for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain and tech support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Hosting supplier. Sometimes, based on the invoicing system (particularly created for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting vendor is making use of, the ardent customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).
Downside Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... rapidly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting distributors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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