cPanel Website Hosting Definition
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on the current website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing segment, which supplies a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting market provide the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a normal chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k web hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the current website hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied most hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Problem Number One: An idiotic domain name folder arrangement
If you have two or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to remove entirely 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 domain names are very easy to erase on the web server, because they all are set up 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 name)
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 getting perplexed? We unquestionably are!
Disadvantage Number Two: The same e-mail folder setup
The email folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too seriously.
Problem Number 3: An utter shortage of domain management interfaces
Do we need to point out the complete absence of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a major shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...
Weak Point Number Four: Many login places (minimum 2, max three)
How about the need for an extra login to access the billing, domain and tech support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Website Hosting firm. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction system (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting corporation is making use of, the earnest clients can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration system; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).
Drawback Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to get familiar with... quickly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting firms:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...
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