Description of cPanel Website Hosting
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on the present website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet offering absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market supply literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...
200k "Website Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a normal chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names across the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
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 fashionable and perhaps covered all web hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Drawback Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to remove entirely 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 domains are very simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain 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)
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)
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 certainly are!
Downside Number Two: The same e-mail folder structure
The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly increase their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too seriously.
Shortcoming Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain manipulation GUIs
Do we have to refer to the absolute deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a huge inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...
Weak Side Number 4: Many user login locations (min two, maximum three)
How about the demand for another login to access the invoicing, domain name and technical support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Website Hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction tool (principally made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting corporation is availing of, the eager customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).
Disadvantage No.5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... fast
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting corporations:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...
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