Description of cPanel Website Hosting
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace offer literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The Website Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an average person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple math demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly met most website hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Aspect Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup 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 name)
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 name)
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)
Are you becoming nonplussed? We unquestionably are!
Weakness Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder system
The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly increase their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.
Shortcoming No.3: A total absence of domain administration menus
Do we have to cite the complete lack of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a major disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...
Negative Side No.4: Many login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)
How about the need for another login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Website Hosting service provider. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting provider is making use of, the keen clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain administration user interface; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).
Weakness Number Five: 120+ CP sections to get to know... quickly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting corporations:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...
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