What In Fact is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole hosting market provide absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a normal person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled most web hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Side No.1: An idiotic domain folder setup
If you have two or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known 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. Observe for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name 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 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 growing disorientated? We unquestionably are!
Problem No.2: The very same email folder structure
The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too badly.
Negative Point Number 3: An absolute lack of domain management options
Do we need to point out the entire lack of a contemporary domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a considerable drawback. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...
Disadvantage No.4: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Website Hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction tool (especially meant for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting firm is making use of, the devoted customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain name management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).
Predicament No.5: 120+ web hosting CP areas to get familiar with... swiftly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting firms:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...
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