cPanel Web Hosting Unveiled
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business niche, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting market provide exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/CP option. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a regular bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brand names all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple math reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly covered most web hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Problem No.1: A dumb domain name folder setup
If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain 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)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
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)
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 puzzled? We certainly are!
Inconvenience No.2: The very same mail folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly fortify their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too severely.
Weakness Number 3: An utter shortage of domain administration options
Do we have to refer to the thorough lack of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" section at all. That's a great inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we want to add...
Downside No.4: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum 3)
What about the demand for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Web Hosting company. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction system (particularly created for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting provider is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Weak Side No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to become familiar with... swiftly
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting corporations:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...
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