What In Fact is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which generates a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the whole hosting market provide one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an average chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names worldwide will give you the very same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present-day website hosting market is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled all website hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Point Number One: An idiotic domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder structure is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)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 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 getting nonplussed? We absolutely are!
Weak Point Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder system
The email folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too fatally.
Predicament No.3: A thorough lack of domain manipulation interfaces
Do we have to mention the sheer shortage of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a major weakness. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...
Negative Side Number 4: Multiple login places (minimum two, maximum three)
How about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support management section? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Web Hosting provider. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction system (particularly meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting distributor is using, the keen users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Disadvantage No.5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel departments to grasp... rapidly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting firms:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...
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