How cPanel Hosting Operates
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which supplies an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet providing strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace provide one and 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 almost no other website hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The Hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a regular person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names across the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered all web hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Disadvantage Number 1: A dumb domain name folder configuration
If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are situated 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 name)
Are you getting disorientated? We categorically are!
Downside Number 2: The very same email folder setup
The e-mail folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too irretrievably.
Inconvenience Number Three: An entire absence of domain manipulation sections
Do we have to bring up the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a big downside. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...
Shortcoming Number 4: Many login places (minimum 2, maximum three)
What about the need for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain and technical support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Hosting service provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing platform (especially developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting company is utilizing, the eager users can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain name administration software; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).
Shortcoming Number 5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel menus to become familiar with... quickly
cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting vendors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...
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