How cPanel Website Hosting Operates
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which generates a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed
The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 website hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present website hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably covered all web hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Point Number One: An imbecilic domain folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain 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)
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 growing puzzled? We positively are!
Downside Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder structure
The mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too seriously.
Disadvantage Number Three: An entire absence of domain manipulation sections
Do we have to mention the utter shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" section at all. That's a gigantic weakness. An unforgettable one, we want to add...
Negative Aspect Number 4: Many user login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)
How about the demand for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Website Hosting firm. At times, depending on the billing platform (especially made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting service provider is availing of, the earnest customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Side Number Five: 120+ website hosting CP menus to become familiar with... swiftly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting distributors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...
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