What Does cPanel Web Hosting Represent?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market offer one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a normal person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names in the world will give you literally the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present web hosting market is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably satisfied most web hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Sign Number 1: A foolish domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)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)
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 disorientated? We surely are!
Disadvantage Number 2: The same mail folder arrangement
The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too seriously.
Shortcoming Number 3: A total deficiency of domain name management menus
Do we have to point out the total deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" menu at all. That's a big drawback. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...
Weak Side Number Four: Many user login places (minimum two, max three)
How about the demand for an extra login to use the billing, domain and tech support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Web Hosting distributor. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (particularly devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting provider is making use of, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Sign Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel sections to get familiar with... promptly
cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting service providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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