cPanel Web Hosting Clarified
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on today's website hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which supplies a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an average bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably met all web hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Point No.1: A foolish domain name folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the server, because they all are situated 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 name)
Are you becoming perplexed? We undoubtedly are!
Weakness No.2: The very same mail folder arrangement
The email folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly increase their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too gravely.
Weak Point Number Three: An utter absence of domain name administration GUIs
Do we have to bring up the thorough deficiency of a modern domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a huge downside. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...
Weak Point No.4: Numerous user login places (min 2, max 3)
How about the demand for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Web Hosting service provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing system (especially conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting distributor is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Problem Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... promptly
cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
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