cPanel Hosting Revealed
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offers on the present web hosting marketplace are provided by a very insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market furnish one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200k "Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a normal bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled most web hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Problem No.1: An idiotic domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra attentive not to remove completely 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 domains are very simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed 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 amazing cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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 becoming baffled? We positively are!
Shortcoming Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement
The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.
Weakness Number 3: A total deficiency of domain manipulation options
Do we need to bring up the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a big downside. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...
Negative Side No.4: Many login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)
What about the necessity for an extra login to use the billing, domain and tech support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Hosting distributor. At times, depending on the invoicing system (especially built for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting distributor is utilizing, the zealous users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management tool; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).
Predicament Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to memorize... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting distributors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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