cPanel Web Hosting Clarified
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on the current web hosting market are generated by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which provides a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting market furnish exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
200k "Web Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The Web Hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different hosting brand names in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered all web hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Sign Number One: A dumb domain folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are placed 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 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. Decide for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 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 getting bewildered? We categorically are!
Negative Sign Number 2: The very same email folder setup
The email folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too badly.
Weak Side Number 3: A thorough shortage of domain management tools
Do we need to mention the total deficiency of a modern domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" section at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...
Negative Side Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)
How about the demand for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Web Hosting firm. At times, based on the invoicing tool (particularly meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting vendor is utilizing, the earnest clients can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Weak Side Number Five: More than 120 hosting CP sections to pick up... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a fine idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, 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? Mind that one as well...
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