cPanel Hosting Revealed
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offers on today's website hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace provide strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200,000 "Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands across the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the contemporary website hosting market is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly covered all web hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weakness Number One: A moronic domain folder arrangement
If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are created 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 try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 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)
Are you becoming confused? We positively are!
Weakness Number Two: The same e-mail folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their faith in God when managing the email folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too seriously.
Shortcoming No.3: A complete absence of domain name management GUIs
Do we have to refer to the sheer absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a major weakness. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...
Weakness No.4: Many login locations (minimum 2, max 3)
How about the necessity for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Hosting vendor. Sometimes, based on the invoicing system (especially developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting firm is utilizing, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Downside Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to get familiar with... briskly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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