cPanel Hosting Definition
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offers on today's website hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market offer exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200,000 "Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a normal person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps answered all website hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Side Number One: A moronic domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the hosting server, since 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)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)
Are you growing perplexed? We surely are!
Negative Side Number 2: The same e-mail folder configuration
The e-mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their faith in God when managing the email folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too seriously.
Shortcoming Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain name management options
Do we need to bring up the utter deficiency of a modern domain name management user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a big downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...
Drawback Number Four: Many login locations (min two, max three)
How about the demand for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management section? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Hosting provider. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing platform (especially intended for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting supplier is utilizing, the avid customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management section; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).
Weakness Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... rapidly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting suppliers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...
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