What Actually is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on today's website hosting market are furnished by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which supplies a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The Website Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably answered most website hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Side Number 1: A dumb domain folder system
If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web 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 located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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)
Are you getting confused? We doubtlessly are!
Shortcoming No.2: The very same email folder setup
The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly enhance their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.
Disadvantage Number 3: An absolute absence of domain administration tools
Do we need to refer to the entire absence of a modern domain management platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" interface at all. That's a gigantic inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...
Weakness Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min two, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Website Hosting supplier. At times, based on the invoicing transaction platform (especially created for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting distributor is using, the ardent customers can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).
Negative Sign No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to become familiar with... fast
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting suppliers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...
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