cPanel Web Hosting Description
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace offer one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
200k "Web Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The Web Hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an average chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 website hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present website hosting market is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied all website hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Shortcoming Number 1: A moronic domain name folder setup
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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)
Are you becoming puzzled? We definitely are!
Negative Side Number 2: The same email folder arrangement
The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly increase their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.
Disadvantage Number 3: A total deficiency of domain name management tools
Do we need to refer to the sheer deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a considerable shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...
Negative Sign No.4: Many login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)
What about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Web Hosting service provider. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction system (principally built for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting company is using, the earnest customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).
Negative Aspect Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel areas to become familiar with... quickly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting companies:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...
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