Description of cPanel Website Hosting
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on the present web hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace provide one and the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200k "Website Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k web hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple math demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly answered all website hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Predicament Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder setup
If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent 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 web hosting 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
Are you becoming confused? We unquestionably are!
Shortcoming Number 2: The very same e-mail folder system
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the email folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too badly.
Weak Point Number 3: A thorough lack of domain management sections
Do we have to point out the thorough lack of a modern domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a major weakness. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...
Shortcoming Number Four: Multiple user login places (min 2, max 3)
How about the necessity for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Website Hosting vendor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting distributor is using, the eager users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Downside Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... fast
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting vendors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...
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