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cPanel Hosting Explanation
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the current website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace supply strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k web hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present-day website hosting market is... Full stop.
The website hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based website hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably answered all web hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Side Number One: A stupid domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 name)
Are you getting bewildered? We unquestionably are!
Inconvenience Number Two: The very same e-mail folder structure
The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.
Negative Side No.3: An utter lack of domain name management interfaces
Do we have to cite the absolute deficiency of a modern domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a big drawback. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...
Weak Side Number Four: Numerous login locations (min 2, maximum three)
What about the need for an additional login to use the billing, domain name and tech support management system? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting distributor. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction tool (principally meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel website hosting corporation is using, the avid clients can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Drawback Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... briskly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting firms:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...