What Precisely is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace supply the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
The Website Hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a normal guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 website hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names worldwide will give you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the current web hosting market is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled most hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weakness Number 1: A dumb domain name folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the server, since 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how wonderful 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)
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 disorientated? We categorically are!
Negative Point Number 2: The very same mail folder arrangement
The e-mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly increase their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too gravely.
Negative Aspect No.3: A total lack of domain name management tools
Do we need to bring up the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a gigantic predicament. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...
Negative Point No.4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, max three)
How about the necessity for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Website Hosting provider. Now and then, depending on the billing tool (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting provider is utilizing, the avid clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).
Inconvenience No.5: 120+ CP menus to get familiar with... briskly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
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