What In Fact is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on the contemporary hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which provides a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting market offer precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
200k "Web Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The Web Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names worldwide will give you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present hosting market is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met all web hosting industry demands. 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...
Negative Side No.1: An idiotic domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 name)
Are you becoming bewildered? We clearly are!
Negative Sign Number Two: The very same mail folder arrangement
The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly fortify their belief in God when handling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too severely.
Weak Point No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain management tools
Do we need to bring up the complete shortage of a modern domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a great predicament. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...
Weak Point Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum 2, maximum three)
What about the need for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Web Hosting vendor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting distributor is utilizing, the devoted clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain management software; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Downside Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to get to know... briskly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting companies:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
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