What In Fact is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are furnished by a very insignificant business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace provide exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a regular guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web hosting vendors in existence. 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 in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on today's website hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably met most web hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Aspect Number 1: A foolish domain name folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to delete completely 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 domain names are very simple to erase on the server, because they all are situated 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder system 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 name)
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)
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 undeniably are!
Problem Number 2: The very same email folder system
The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too seriously.
Drawback Number Three: A thorough lack of domain name management menus
Do we need to cite the absolute deficiency of a modern domain name management interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a major drawback. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...
Shortcoming Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min 2, max three)
How about the demand for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Website Hosting distributor. At times, depending on the invoice transaction tool (particularly devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting corporation is utilizing, the ardent clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management software; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Point Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to become familiar with... briskly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting corporations:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...
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