How cPanel Website Hosting Operates
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet offering precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offers on the whole hosting market supply the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only a regular fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps answered all web hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Shortcoming Number One: A dumb domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how great 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 name)
Are you getting nonplussed? We certainly are!
Weak Point Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder system
The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly reinforce their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too severely.
Disadvantage Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain name manipulation sections
Do we have to bring up the utter absence of a modern domain management platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" tool at all. That's a vast problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...
Weak Point Number Four: Multiple login places (min two, max three)
How about the demand for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain and tech support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Website Hosting corporation. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing system (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting supplier is making use of, the zealous clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel departments to get to know... swiftly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting service providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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