What Does cPanel Web Hosting Denote?
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace offer precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The Web Hosting "variety" 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. Imagine you are simply an ordinary guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names around the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied most web hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Problem Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how good cPanel's domain name 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)
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 name)
Are you becoming disorientated? We clearly are!
Weak Point Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration
The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too fatally.
Negative Side No.3: An absolute deficiency of domain name administration user interfaces
Do we need to cite the total deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" tool at all. That's a great predicament. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...
Downside Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)
What about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration system? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Web Hosting vendor. At times, on the basis of the invoicing system (principally meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting vendor is using, the eager customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Aspect Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... briskly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting distributors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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