Description of cPanel Website Hosting
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on the present-day hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the 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 offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace supply strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...
200k "Website Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are just an ordinary fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? 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 ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled most web hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Downside Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
Are you getting confused? We clearly are!
Downside Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder system
The email folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too badly.
Weak Point Number Three: An utter lack of domain name management options
Do we have to cite the absolute lack of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" tool at all. That's a mammoth inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...
Drawback Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)
How about the need for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management section? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Website Hosting corporation. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (principally made for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting provider is utilizing, the keen clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Problem Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... fast
cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting vendors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...
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