cPanel Hosting Reseller
cPanel website hosting or... cPanel website hosting?!?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the current site hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...
200,000 "web page hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an ordinary person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands worldwide will give you the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the contemporary hosting market is... Full stop.
The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based hosting company is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web page hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled all web hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Inconvenience Number One: A dumb domain folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed 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. Verify for yourself how great 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)
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)
Are you getting puzzled? We unquestionably are!
Negative Sign Number 2: The very same e-mail folder configuration
The email folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too severely.
Negative Aspect No.3: An entire shortage of domain name management GUIs
Do we need to cite the sheer shortage of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a great problem. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...
Shortcoming No.4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)
What about the need for another login to use the billing, domain name and tech support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web space hosting provider. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction platform (principally intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the avid clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Downside No.5: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting CP areas to get acquainted with... swiftly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...