cPanel Hosting Disclosed
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which provides a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace provide exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
200k "Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
The Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only a normal bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 website hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names in the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple math shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably fulfilled all hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weakness No.1: A laughable domain name folder system
If you have two or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 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 growing confused? We surely are!
Weak Point Number 2: The very same mail folder setup
The mail folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly enhance their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too harshly.
Downside Number 3: A thorough absence of domain manipulation tools
Do we need to cite the absolute absence of a modern domain management interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's a considerable predicament. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...
Weak Side Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, max three)
How about the demand for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management software? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Hosting supplier. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction tool (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting corporation is making use of, the keen customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Shortcoming No.5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... rapidly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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