What Precisely is cPanel Hosting?
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market furnish strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
200,000 "Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an average fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k website hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names around the world will give you literally the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly fulfilled all website hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Drawback Number 1: A foolish domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new 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 hosting server, because they all are placed 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. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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 name)
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 growing baffled? We positively are!
Weakness No.2: The very same e-mail folder system
The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly enhance their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too badly.
Shortcoming Number 3: A sheer lack of domain name management menus
Do we have to point out the sheer absence of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" section at all. That's an enormous predicament. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...
Weak Side No.4: Many login places (min two, max 3)
How about the need for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain and technical support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Hosting company. At times, based on the invoicing platform (especially developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting provider is availing of, the devoted customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Aspect Number Five: More than 120 website hosting CP sections to become familiar with... briskly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting distributors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...
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