What Exactly is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel Website Hosting offerings on the present website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace offer one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely 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 two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
200k "Website Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
The Website Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Assume you are just an average fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k web hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor 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 fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably met most web hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Downside Number One: A moronic domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic 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)
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)
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 undeniably are!
Negative Sign Number Two: The very same email folder system
The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly increase their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too gravely.
Negative Sign Number 3: An utter lack of domain name management tools
Do we need to mention the complete deficiency of a modern domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" menu at all. That's a major disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...
Weakness Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max three)
What about the necessity for another login to access the invoicing, domain and tech support management system? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Website Hosting company. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing system (principally built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting vendor is availing of, the earnest customers can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Weakness Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... swiftly
cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting suppliers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...
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