What is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offers on today's web hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace supply literally the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...
200k "Website Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an average chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the contemporary website hosting market is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered all website hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weakness Number 1: A laughable domain folder setup
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 subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how excellent 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 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 name)
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 confused? We certainly are!
Negative Side No.2: The same electronic mail folder setup
The mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly strengthen their faith in God when managing the email folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too harshly.
Disadvantage Number Three: An utter shortage of domain management tools
Do we need to point out the absolute shortage of a modern domain administration user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a gigantic drawback. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...
Inconvenience Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum two, max three)
What about the need for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Website Hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (principally devised for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting distributor is using, the devoted customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Inconvenience Number 5: 120+ website hosting CP sections to pick up... briskly
cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting suppliers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
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