What Exactly is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business segment, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet providing strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200k "Web Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k web hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different hosting brands all over the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on today's web hosting market is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met all website hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Side No.1: A dumb domain folder system
If you have two or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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. See for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)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 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 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)
Are you getting bewildered? We absolutely are!
Predicament Number 2: The same e-mail folder configuration
The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly increase their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too fatally.
Weak Point No.3: An utter absence of domain name administration user interfaces
Do we need to cite the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" menu at all. That's a mammoth predicament. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...
Inconvenience No.4: Many login places (minimum two, max three)
What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Web Hosting company. At times, depending on the invoice transaction system (particularly built for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting distributor is using, the ardent customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration menu; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).
Weak Point Number 5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel areas to get acquainted with... fast
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting corporations:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...
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