Definition of cPanel Website Hosting
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on the current hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely 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 web hosting offers on the entire website hosting market furnish one and the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a normal bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names across the world will give you the very same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably covered most website hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Side Number 1: A laughable domain name folder arrangement
If you have two or more domain names, though, be very careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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 perplexed? We undeniably are!
Weak Point No.2: The same electronic mail folder setup
The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly enhance their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.
Downside Number 3: An utter deficiency of domain name management options
Do we need to mention the utter absence of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" section at all. That's a big problem. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...
Disadvantage Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min two, maximum 3)
What about the demand for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Website Hosting firm. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (principally developed for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting supplier is making use of, the ardent customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Weakness Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty CP menus to get to know... rapidly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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