Definition of cPanel Hosting
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole hosting market provide literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...
200k "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
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The hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a normal person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands around the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present website hosting market is... Period.
The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably met most web hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Side Number One: A laughable domain folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how terrific 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 name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
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 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 name)
Are you getting baffled? We unquestionably are!
Negative Aspect No.2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration
The mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when handling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too irreparably.
Weak Side Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain management sections
Do we have to point out the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" interface at all. That's a major inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...
Weak Point No.4: Numerous login locations (min 2, max three)
How about the need for an extra login to utilize the invoicing, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting corporation. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (principally intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel hosting provider is using, the zealous customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Point Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to learn each of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting corporations:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...