What Exactly is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing precisely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names in the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled all web hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Point No.1: An imbecilic domain folder structure
If you have two or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the hosting 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 is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder structure is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)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)
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 becoming baffled? We undeniably are!
Weak Point No.2: The very same e-mail folder configuration
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly increase their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.
Downside Number 3: A total deficiency of domain management sections
Do we have to refer to the complete absence of a modern domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a gigantic disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...
Shortcoming No.4: Numerous user login places (min two, maximum 3)
What about the need for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Website Hosting vendor. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction platform (particularly conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting provider is availing of, the ardent customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Problem Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to become familiar with... quickly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...
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