What Does cPanel Website Hosting Denote?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...
200k "Website Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The Website Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an ordinary chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names in the world will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple math reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably satisfied most web hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weakness No.1: A dumb domain folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)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)
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 name)
Are you growing nonplussed? We absolutely are!
Weakness No.2: The same e-mail folder configuration
The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too severely.
Weakness Number 3: An absolute absence of domain name management GUIs
Do we have to refer to the absolute lack of a modern domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a colossal shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...
Negative Aspect Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)
What about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain and tech support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Website Hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction platform (particularly intended for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting company is using, the ardent clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).
Negative Point No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to become acquainted with... fast
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting corporations:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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