What is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business niche, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the entire website hosting market furnish one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just a single 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 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200k "Website Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a regular fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting vendors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands worldwide will offer you the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the current web hosting market is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met all web hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Problem Number 1: A foolish domain name folder arrangement
If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
Are you getting confused? We undeniably are!
Negative Point No.2: The very same e-mail folder configuration
The email folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too fatally.
Weak Point Number 3: A sheer shortage of domain name administration user interfaces
Do we need to refer to the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" section at all. That's a considerable shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...
Weakness Number 4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the invoicing, domain and technical support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Website Hosting firm. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction platform (particularly invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting firm is using, the ardent users can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).
Drawback No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to pick up... briskly
cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting suppliers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...
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