cPanel Hosting Explanation
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on today's web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which provides a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market supply exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "website hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded
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The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an average chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names around the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The pros and cons of the cPanel website hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered all web hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Side No.1: A laughable domain name folder arrangement
If you have two or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, 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 server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)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)
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 bewildered? We positively are!
Drawback Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder system
The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when managing the email folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.
Downside Number 3: An utter deficiency of domain manipulation tools
Do we have to cite the utter shortage of a contemporary domain management tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" menu at all. That's an enormous drawback. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...
Shortcoming Number 4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max three)
What about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing platform (particularly tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting company is utilizing, the avid users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Aspect Number 5: More than 120 CP departments to pick up... rapidly
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to learn each of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting service providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...