cPanel Web Hosting Description
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing one and the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the hosting offers on the entire hosting market offer absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an average guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brand names around the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly covered most website hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Downside Number One: An idiotic domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to 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 easy to delete on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder system 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 name)
Are you becoming baffled? We certainly are!
Negative Sign No.2: The very same mail folder structure
The mail folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly increase their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irretrievably.
Negative Point Number Three: A complete absence of domain name manipulation GUIs
Do we have to cite the complete deficiency of a modern domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an immense weakness. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...
Drawback Number 4: Numerous login places (min two, maximum 3)
What about the need for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Web Hosting service provider. Now and then, based on the billing transaction tool (particularly intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting service provider is availing of, the keen clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Weak Point No.5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... promptly
cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting firms:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
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