Description of cPanel Hosting
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace provide literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200k "Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a normal person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met all web hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Inconvenience Number 1: An idiotic domain folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to delete entirely 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). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how terrific 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)
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 getting confused? We positively are!
Problem Number Two: The very same mail folder arrangement
The email folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly reinforce their faith in God when managing the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irreparably.
Inconvenience Number 3: A thorough deficiency of domain management interfaces
Do we need to mention the utter absence of a contemporary domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a great weakness. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...
Problem Number Four: Many user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)
What about the necessity for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Hosting distributor. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction tool (principally conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting company is using, the keen clients can wind up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Shortcoming No.5: More than 120 web hosting CP sections to get familiar with... swiftly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
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