cPanel Web Hosting Definition
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace offer the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly satisfied all web hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Shortcoming Number One: An idiotic domain folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 growing bewildered? We doubtlessly are!
Shortcoming No.2: The same e-mail folder setup
The mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their faith in God when handling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too irretrievably.
Weakness No.3: A complete deficiency of domain administration user interfaces
Do we have to mention the sheer lack of a contemporary domain management platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a mammoth predicament. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...
Disadvantage No.4: Many login locations (min 2, maximum three)
How about the need for an additional login to use the billing, domain and tech support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Web Hosting service provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (principally tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting distributor is making use of, the earnest users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management system; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Point Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel departments to become familiar with... quickly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...
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