cPanel Website Hosting Unveiled
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace supply strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200,000 "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
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The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands in the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on today's hosting market is... Period.
The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied most web hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Sign No.1: A dumb domain name folder arrangement
If you have two or more domains, though, be very attentive 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder setup 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 name)
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 growing confused? We surely are!
Weak Point Number Two: The very same e-mail folder system
The email folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly increase their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.
Predicament Number 3: A total deficiency of domain name administration GUIs
Do we have to refer to the absolute lack of a modern domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" interface at all. That's a gigantic downside. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...
Weakness Number Four: Many login places (min 2, maximum three)
What about the need for an extra login to use the billing, domain name and technical support management system? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting firm. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing platform (particularly designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the ardent customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration menu; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Drawback No.5: More than 120 web hosting CP departments to get to know... quickly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting suppliers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...