What In Fact is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present website hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which generates a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market furnish the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200,000 "web hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
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The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 website hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brands all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The pros and cons of the cPanel web hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met all website hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Drawback Number One: A moronic domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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 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 name)
Are you becoming confused? We undeniably are!
Predicament Number 2: The same e-mail folder structure
The e-mail folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly strengthen their belief in God when managing the email folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.
Downside No.3: An entire deficiency of domain management menus
Do we have to bring up the utter deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's an immense shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...
Weak Point Number Four: Many login places (min two, maximum three)
What about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and technical support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting company. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction platform (especially devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the keen clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).
Predicament Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... briskly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting firms:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...