What Does cPanel Web Hosting Signify?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market offer strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The Web Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an ordinary fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met all website hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Shortcoming Number 1: A moronic domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very cautious not to erase fully 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 quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 becoming perplexed? We certainly are!
Shortcoming Number 2: The very same mail folder arrangement
The e-mail folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too badly.
Negative Point No.3: An utter lack of domain administration user interfaces
Do we need to point out the absolute lack of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a colossal predicament. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...
Downside Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, max three)
What about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoicing, domain and technical support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Web Hosting company. At times, based on the invoicing transaction tool (principally intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting company is availing of, the enthusiastic customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Point Number Five: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... quickly
cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting vendors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...
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