cPanel Web Hosting Disclosed
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offerings on the present website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace provide literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The Web Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an average bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brands around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled all website hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weakness Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are set up 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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)
Are you becoming confused? We undeniably are!
Negative Side No.2: The very same e-mail folder system
The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too badly.
Downside Number Three: A sheer absence of domain manipulation user interfaces
Do we have to refer to the total deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" section at all. That's a considerable downside. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...
Negative Side Number 4: Many login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)
What about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management software? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Web Hosting supplier. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting vendor is making use of, the ardent customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).
Problem Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP sections to get to know... promptly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting companies:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...
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