What Does cPanel Web Hosting Denote?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace supply the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded
The Web Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an ordinary chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably met all web hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Inconvenience No.1: A foolish domain name folder setup
If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful 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 domain names are very easy to erase on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how great 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)
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 name)
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 getting nonplussed? We positively are!
Downside Number 2: The same e-mail folder configuration
The mail folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly fortify their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too seriously.
Problem No.3: An absolute deficiency of domain name administration GUIs
Do we need to point out the complete absence of a modern domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a considerable drawback. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...
Drawback No.4: Many user login locations (min 2, max three)
What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain and technical support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Web Hosting provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction tool (especially designed for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting supplier is utilizing, the ardent users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management tool; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Weak Point No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP areas to become familiar with... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the CP. It's a wonderful idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting service providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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