What Does cPanel Website Hosting Represent?
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offers on the present-day web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which provides an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace supply one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands around the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered all hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Aspect No.1: A moronic domain folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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)
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 growing bewildered? We absolutely are!
Weak Point No.2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly fortify their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too severely.
Disadvantage Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain management user interfaces
Do we have to point out the total shortage of a modern domain name administration platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...
Negative Aspect Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max three)
How about the need for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Website Hosting provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (particularly intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting firm is utilizing, the zealous clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Weakness Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP areas to get familiar with... rapidly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting corporations:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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