cPanel Web Hosting Unveiled
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying strictly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace supply strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200k "Web Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site development processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 website hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands worldwide will give you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably met all website hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Point Number 1: A moronic domain name folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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 name)
Are you getting bewildered? We undoubtedly are!
Downside Number Two: The same mail folder setup
The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.
Disadvantage No.3: A thorough shortage of domain manipulation user interfaces
Do we need to mention the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain management tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a mammoth shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...
Weak Point No.4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, max three)
What about the need for an additional login to access the billing, domain and technical support management system? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Web Hosting provider. At times, depending on the billing system (particularly created for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting vendor is utilizing, the earnest clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain management platform; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Sign No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to pick up... fast
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel 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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