Description of cPanel Hosting
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offers on today's website hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace provide strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/CP choice. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
200,000 "Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a regular chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 website hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names around the world will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly covered all web hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Side Number 1: A foolish domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent 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 remove on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 getting bewildered? We surely are!
Downside Number Two: The very same e-mail folder system
The email folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.
Predicament Number Three: A complete lack of domain name administration user interfaces
Do we need to bring up the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a big shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...
Drawback No.4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, maximum three)
What about the need for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Hosting supplier. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction system (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting company is using, the eager clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Drawback Number 5: 120+ CP departments to get familiar with... swiftly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's excessively 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 informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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