cPanel Hosting Description
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting market offer strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...
200,000 "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
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The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a regular chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k web hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names around the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled most website hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Point Number One: An imbecilic domain folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to delete 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 name)
Are you growing confused? We positively are!
Negative Sign Number Two: The same email folder system
The mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too fatally.
Negative Side No.3: An entire absence of domain name administration interfaces
Do we need to cite the total absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a big weakness. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...
Weak Point Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, max 3)
What about the demand for an additional 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 hosting provider. Now and then, based on the billing platform (especially intended for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting service provider is availing of, the enthusiastic users can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).
Downside Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to get to know... fast
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting service providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...