What Does cPanel Web Hosting Represent?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market provide precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names across the world will offer you the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present web hosting market is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably satisfied most website hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Predicament Number 1: A dumb domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder configuration is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)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 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 bewildered? We surely are!
Inconvenience Number Two: The same electronic mail folder arrangement
The e-mail folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly fortify their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too gravely.
Shortcoming Number Three: An entire absence of domain name manipulation menus
Do we have to refer to the entire absence of a modern domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" tool at all. That's a considerable predicament. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...
Disadvantage Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)
What about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing system (especially made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting vendor is using, the keen clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Aspect No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP areas to memorize... promptly
cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...
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