cPanel Web Hosting Revealed
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on the current web hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which supplies an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace provide one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are only a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names in the world will give you literally the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly satisfied most web hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Sign No.1: A moronic domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent 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 web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 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)
Are you becoming perplexed? We surely are!
Inconvenience Number 2: The same electronic mail folder setup
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too seriously.
Downside No.3: A complete lack of domain administration tools
Do we need to mention the absolute lack of a contemporary domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a mammoth inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...
Drawback Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min two, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Web Hosting service provider. Now and then, based on the invoicing system (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting distributor is making use of, the keen clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Weak Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to memorize... swiftly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting suppliers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...
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