What Does cPanel Web Hosting Stand for?
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market supply strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an average bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k website hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names around the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the current hosting market is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably covered most hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Point Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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 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 name)
Are you growing puzzled? We doubtlessly are!
Weak Point No.2: The same e-mail folder setup
The electronic mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly increase their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too seriously.
Negative Side Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain name manipulation user interfaces
Do we need to point out the absolute lack of a modern domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a mammoth downside. An unforgettable one, we want to add...
Negative Sign No.4: Many login places (min 2, max three)
How about the need for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain and tech support management system? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Web Hosting corporation. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction tool (particularly built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting distributor is making use of, the keen clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Aspect No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... fast
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting companies:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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