What is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire hosting market offer literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The Website Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an average chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k website hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands in the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably met most web hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Downside No.1: A moronic domain name folder configuration
If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new 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 delete on the hosting server, since they all are set up 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 name)
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 name)
Are you getting baffled? We definitely are!
Disadvantage No.2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration
The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too fatally.
Shortcoming Number 3: An entire absence of domain name administration interfaces
Do we have to cite the thorough lack of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a vast shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...
Downside Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)
How about the demand for an additional login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support management software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Website Hosting vendor. At times, on the basis of the billing system (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting distributor is making use of, the enthusiastic users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management menu; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Predicament Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP areas to pick up... fast
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...
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