What Does cPanel Web Hosting Denote?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole hosting market offer the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a regular guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names across the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel CP and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps satisfied all website hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Point Number One: A foolish domain name folder system
If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)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 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)
Are you becoming baffled? We definitely are!
Inconvenience Number 2: The same e-mail folder arrangement
The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly reinforce their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too fatally.
Negative Point No.3: A total deficiency of domain administration GUIs
Do we need to cite the total deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...
Shortcoming No.4: Numerous user login locations (min two, maximum three)
How about the necessity for an extra login to use the billing, domain name and technical support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Web Hosting provider. Occasionally, based on the billing tool (particularly designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting firm is availing of, the zealous users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).
Weak Point No.5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... promptly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting service providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...
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