What Does cPanel Web Hosting Signify?
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on today's website hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are just an average bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present hosting market is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered all website hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Point Number One: A moronic domain name folder setup
If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the server, since they all are situated 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder setup is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
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)
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 baffled? We doubtlessly are!
Shortcoming No.2: The very same mail folder setup
The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly increase their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too badly.
Weak Side Number Three: A complete absence of domain manipulation tools
Do we need to cite the thorough lack of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a huge drawback. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...
Negative Aspect Number 4: Multiple login places (min two, maximum 3)
What about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management software? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Web Hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the invoicing platform (especially made for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting vendor is using, the eager clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).
Disadvantage Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel areas to grasp... quickly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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