cPanel Website Hosting Explained
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on the present web hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which generates a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace provide one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a normal guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names all over the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably fulfilled all website hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Shortcoming No.1: An idiotic domain folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, 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 situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 name)
Are you growing confused? We positively are!
Shortcoming No.2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly increase their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too badly.
Problem Number Three: A thorough absence of domain administration sections
Do we have to refer to the complete lack of a modern domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a gigantic weakness. An unforgettable one, we want to add...
Inconvenience Number Four: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max 3)
How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain name and technical support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Website Hosting firm. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction tool (especially created for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting company is availing of, the avid clients can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).
Weak Point Number Five: 120+ website hosting Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... swiftly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's very arrogant 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 informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
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