What In Fact is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet offering precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market supply the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an average chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on today's hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple math demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met most hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Predicament Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder system
If you have two or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 name)
Are you getting disorientated? We surely are!
Inconvenience Number 2: The very same email folder system
The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.
Weakness Number 3: A sheer lack of domain name administration menus
Do we need to cite the complete lack of a modern domain management tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a great disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we want to add...
Drawback Number 4: Multiple user login places (min 2, maximum 3)
What about the need for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain name and technical support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Website Hosting supplier. Sometimes, based on the billing transaction platform (particularly intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting provider is using, the devoted clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management software solution; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Weak Side Number 5: More than 120 web hosting CP menus to get acquainted with... briskly
cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting corporations:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...
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