How cPanel Web Hosting Operates
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on the present website hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market furnish the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are just an average fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 website hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands in the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps met most website hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Inconvenience Number 1: A foolish domain folder setup
If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra attentive 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine 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)
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 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 getting confused? We clearly are!
Negative Point Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration
The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly fortify their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too fatally.
Predicament No.3: A thorough absence of domain name manipulation user interfaces
Do we have to cite the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a huge inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...
Weakness No.4: Many login places (min two, max three)
What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and tech support management interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Web Hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction system (principally meant for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting company is utilizing, the zealous customers can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Aspect Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... rapidly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting service providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...
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