cPanel Website Hosting Clarified
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole hosting market offer strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique hosting brand names around the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present website hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably covered most web hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Point Number 1: A moronic domain folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). 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 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder system is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)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 getting confused? We certainly are!
Weak Side Number 2: The same email folder configuration
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly enhance their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too badly.
Negative Aspect No.3: A thorough lack of domain name management GUIs
Do we need to bring up the entire lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" menu at all. That's a huge disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...
Predicament Number 4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, maximum three)
How about the need for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Website Hosting distributor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (particularly developed for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting service provider is making use of, the avid users can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management system; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).
Weakness Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to learn... fast
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting corporations:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...
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