Description of cPanel Website Hosting
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same solutions: mainly 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 whole web hosting market provide the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
200k "Website Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands around the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present-day website hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied all website hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Drawback No.1: A dumb domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 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 name)
Are you growing confused? We doubtlessly are!
Weakness Number Two: The very same email folder structure
The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too fatally.
Negative Aspect Number 3: An entire absence of domain name administration menus
Do we need to cite the thorough deficiency of a modern domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" tool at all. That's a vast predicament. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...
Weakness Number 4: Numerous user login places (minimum two, max 3)
What about the demand for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support management system? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Website Hosting vendor. Sometimes, based on the billing platform (particularly intended for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting corporation is availing of, the eager customers can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Drawback No.5: More than 120 Control Panel departments to get to know... quickly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a fine idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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