What In Fact is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace offer precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/CP option. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...
200k "Web Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an average guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met most website hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Aspect Number 1: A moronic domain folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra careful not to remove 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 remove on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 puzzled? We absolutely are!
Shortcoming Number Two: The same email folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly enhance their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.
Weakness Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain name management menus
Do we need to bring up the sheer absence of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a major weakness. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...
Weak Side No.4: Many login locations (minimum two, max three)
How about the need for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration section? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting firm. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction system (especially meant for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting company is availing of, the keen clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).
Weak Point Number Five: 120+ Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... fast
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting firms:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...
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