What Does cPanel Website Hosting Represent?
For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offers on the present web hosting market are generated by a very insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market offer the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The Website Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an average bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied all web hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Side No.1: A laughable domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new 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 hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 becoming bewildered? We positively are!
Weakness Number 2: The same mail folder configuration
The email folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly fortify their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too badly.
Negative Point Number 3: A sheer shortage of domain administration interfaces
Do we need to refer to the entire absence of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" interface at all. That's a gigantic predicament. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...
Negative Aspect Number 4: Many user login places (min two, max 3)
How about the demand for another login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management section? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Website Hosting company. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction tool (particularly designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting supplier is using, the keen clients can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration software solution; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).
Drawback No.5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel sections to grasp... briskly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...
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