What Does cPanel Web Hosting Signify?
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are provided by a very insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market provide exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
200k "Web Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The Web Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an average person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k web hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names all over the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps answered most web hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Side Number 1: A dumb domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to delete 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). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name 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)
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 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 growing nonplussed? We surely are!
Inconvenience Number Two: The very same email folder configuration
The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly fortify their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too badly.
Predicament No.3: An utter shortage of domain management menus
Do we need to point out the utter shortage of a contemporary domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" section at all. That's a considerable drawback. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...
Problem Number Four: Many login places (min two, maximum 3)
How about the need for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Web Hosting service provider. At times, depending on the invoice transaction tool (especially created for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting supplier is utilizing, the ardent clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Inconvenience No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to get to know... quickly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting corporations:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
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