What Exactly is 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 market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace provide precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are just a regular bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brands in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present web hosting market is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably met most website hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Downside No.1: A foolish domain folder configuration
If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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 domains, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder system 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 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)
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 getting confused? We doubtlessly are!
Predicament No.2: The very same email folder setup
The mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too seriously.
Weak Point No.3: An entire deficiency of domain management options
Do we have to mention the sheer lack of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a considerable problem. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...
Negative Aspect Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)
What about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Website Hosting distributor. At times, based on the invoicing tool (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting distributor is utilizing, the devoted users can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).
Weak Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to grasp... briskly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's excessively 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 know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...
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