cPanel Web Hosting Defined
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on today's web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting market furnish absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200k "Web Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you the same cPanel CP and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably met all hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Point No.1: A dumb domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated 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 amazing cPanel's domain 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)
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)
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 confused? We certainly are!
Negative Point Number 2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly enhance their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too irreparably.
Shortcoming No.3: An entire deficiency of domain name management tools
Do we have to mention the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an enormous inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...
Negative Side Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum two, max three)
How about the demand for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Web Hosting vendor. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing tool (principally meant for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting vendor is making use of, the enthusiastic clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).
Weak Point Number 5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel menus to learn... quickly
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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