cPanel Web Hosting Explanation
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on the present web hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small business segment, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace offer literally the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200k "Web Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands in the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on today's website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly covered all website hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Problem Number One: A dumb domain name folder arrangement
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the hosting 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 name is a folder located 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. Determine for yourself how great 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)
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 becoming confused? We clearly are!
Weak Side Number 2: The same e-mail folder structure
The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.
Inconvenience No.3: An entire shortage of domain manipulation menus
Do we need to bring up the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" tool at all. That's a great drawback. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...
Negative Sign No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)
How about the necessity for an extra login to access the billing, domain name and tech support management system? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting corporation. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly meant for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting provider is availing of, the zealous users can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).
Downside Number Five: 120+ website hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... rapidly
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the CP. It's a fabulous idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting suppliers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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