Definition of cPanel Hosting
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which generates a big number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace offer the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...
200k "Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an ordinary guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands around the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably fulfilled most web hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Downside Number One: A foolish domain folder configuration
If you have two or more domains, however, be very careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, 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. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 name)
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 nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!
Negative Aspect Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder structure
The email folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too seriously.
Weak Side Number Three: An entire shortage of domain administration menus
Do we need to refer to the complete shortage of a modern domain management interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's an enormous downside. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...
Inconvenience Number 4: Many login places (min 2, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for another login to access the billing, domain name and tech support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Hosting supplier. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction platform (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting service provider is utilizing, the avid clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).
Disadvantage Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to become acquainted with... briskly
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting distributors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
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