What Exactly is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which generates a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200k "Website Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a regular guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple math demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met most web hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Point No.1: A stupid domain folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 simple to remove on the 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
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 confused? We positively are!
Disadvantage No.2: The same mail folder setup
The mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too seriously.
Predicament Number Three: An utter deficiency of domain name manipulation menus
Do we have to mention the entire deficiency of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" menu at all. That's a huge problem. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...
Problem No.4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, maximum three)
What about the demand for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Website Hosting distributor. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (principally intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting service provider is making use of, the eager customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).
Weak Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to learn... promptly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a great idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting distributors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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