What Does cPanel Website Hosting Signify?
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on the current website hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace provide the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/CP option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k web hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names all over the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps answered most web hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Shortcoming No.1: A moronic domain folder structure
If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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 growing bewildered? We certainly are!
Weak Side Number 2: The very same mail folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly enhance their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.
Shortcoming Number 3: An utter deficiency of domain name manipulation interfaces
Do we need to point out the utter shortage of a modern domain management tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a gigantic predicament. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...
Negative Aspect Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, max 3)
What about the need for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Website Hosting firm. Now and then, depending on the billing tool (principally invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting provider is availing of, the eager customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management GUI; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).
Predicament No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to become familiar with... swiftly
cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a great idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting firms:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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