Explanation of cPanel Web Hosting
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are generated by a very insignificant business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market offer absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...
200k "Web Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The Web Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an average bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 website hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names around the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The pros and cons of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps met all website hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Drawback Number 1: A dumb domain name folder arrangement
If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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 getting nonplussed? We absolutely are!
Predicament No.2: The very same mail folder system
The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too badly.
Negative Side No.3: An entire absence of domain name administration menus
Do we need to refer to the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain management interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a great problem. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...
Drawback No.4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, max three)
What about the need for another login to use the billing, domain and tech support administration section? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Web Hosting service provider. At times, based on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting service provider is making use of, the earnest clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).
Weakness Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to get to know... promptly
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting suppliers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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