What Exactly is cPanel Web Hosting?
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
200k "Web Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The Web Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only a normal fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands in the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered most web hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Inconvenience Number 1: An idiotic domain name folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder arrangement is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)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 name)
Are you getting perplexed? We definitely are!
Problem No.2: The same e-mail folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly increase their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too severely.
Predicament Number Three: An utter shortage of domain manipulation menus
Do we need to bring up the complete deficiency of a modern domain management menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's an enormous inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...
Weak Point No.4: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for another login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software solution? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting company. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (principally made for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting supplier is availing of, the avid clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration system; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).
Weak Point No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to learn... swiftly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting vendors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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