cPanel Web Hosting Explained
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market offer precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The Web Hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an average bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 website hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different hosting brands around the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present website hosting market is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably covered most website hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Sign No.1: A stupid domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domains, though, be very cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide 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 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)
Are you getting perplexed? We undoubtedly are!
Weak Point Number Two: The same electronic mail folder structure
The email folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too irreparably.
Shortcoming Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain name manipulation tools
Do we have to cite the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a great predicament. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...
Negative Side No.4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)
What about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Web Hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (particularly built for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting distributor is using, the eager customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).
Predicament Number 5: More than 120 website hosting CP departments to learn... fast
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting companies:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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