cPanel Web Hosting Explanation
For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on the present web hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace supply the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200k "Web Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed
The Web Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a regular chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names in the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied most web hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Inconvenience Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to remove fully 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). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated 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. Examine for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 baffled? We doubtlessly are!
Weak Point No.2: The same electronic mail folder system
The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too fatally.
Downside Number 3: An entire absence of domain management options
Do we need to point out the utter lack of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a gigantic disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...
Problem No.4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, max three)
How about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Web Hosting provider. At times, on the basis of the invoicing system (particularly built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting distributor is making use of, the eager customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management system; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).
Negative Point No.5: 120+ Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... swiftly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting suppliers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...
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