cPanel Website Hosting Disclosed
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an ordinary guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on today's website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered most web hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Problem No.1: A laughable domain name folder system
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 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 growing confused? We undoubtedly are!
Negative Side No.2: The very same email folder arrangement
The mail folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when handling the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too gravely.
Shortcoming Number Three: An entire absence of domain administration user interfaces
Do we need to bring up the utter deficiency of a modern domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an enormous downside. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...
Downside Number Four: Many login locations (minimum two, max three)
How about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration section? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Website Hosting corporation. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing platform (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting service provider is availing of, the enthusiastic customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management section; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).
Downside No.5: 120+ web hosting CP menus to pick up... fast
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting firms:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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