cPanel Web Hosting Revealed
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace offer strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
200k "Web Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a normal fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique hosting brand names around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably answered most web hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Shortcoming Number 1: A laughable domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 name)
Are you getting puzzled? We unquestionably are!
Negative Point Number 2: The very same e-mail folder structure
The email folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.
Negative Side Number 3: A complete absence of domain administration interfaces
Do we have to mention the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a major drawback. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...
Problem Number Four: Multiple user login places (min two, max three)
What about the need for an additional login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and technical support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Web Hosting company. At times, based on the invoicing transaction platform (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting company is making use of, the earnest users can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Problem Number 5: More than 120 hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... swiftly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a fine idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...
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