What Precisely is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market furnish one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one 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 two percent, mind that one...
200k "Website Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
The Website Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an average bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and sites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can select? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 website hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple math shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled all website hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Shortcoming Number One: A foolish domain folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 becoming baffled? We positively are!
Negative Sign No.2: The very same electronic mail folder system
The mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too badly.
Inconvenience Number 3: A total absence of domain administration user interfaces
Do we have to mention the total deficiency of a contemporary domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a great shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...
Weak Point Number Four: Many login places (minimum two, max three)
How about the need for an extra login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Website Hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting provider is making use of, the zealous users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).
Weakness Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... briskly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the CP. It's a glorious idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting distributors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...
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