cPanel Hosting Revealed
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which supplies an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market provide the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200k "Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an average fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, at present 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 website hosting brands across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on today's hosting market is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps met most web hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Aspect Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder structure
If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how wonderful 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)
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 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 getting confused? We undoubtedly are!
Problem No.2: The same email folder setup
The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly fortify their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too harshly.
Disadvantage Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain administration sections
Do we have to bring up the total absence of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a gigantic weakness. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...
Weak Side No.4: Multiple login locations (min 2, maximum 3)
What about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Hosting provider. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting supplier is availing of, the earnest clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Weakness Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty CP areas to get acquainted with... swiftly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them fast... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting companies:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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