What Does cPanel Website Hosting Signify?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace supply precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are just a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied all website hosting market preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Point Number One: A moronic domain folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next 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 erase on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder structure is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)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 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)
Are you getting disorientated? We undeniably are!
Negative Sign No.2: The very same email folder system
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly increase their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too seriously.
Weak Point Number 3: An utter shortage of domain name manipulation menus
Do we need to bring up the entire lack of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a major disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...
Disadvantage Number 4: Numerous login locations (min 2, max three)
How about the need for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and technical support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Website Hosting distributor. Now and then, depending on the billing system (principally invented for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting firm is utilizing, the ardent customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain management software solution; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).
Shortcoming No.5: 120+ website hosting CP departments to pick up... swiftly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting service providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...
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