Description of cPanel Web Hosting
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace provide the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
The Web Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply a normal bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brand names in the world will give you literally the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present-day hosting market is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably answered all web hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Point Number One: An idiotic domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are situated 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)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)
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 getting confused? We absolutely are!
Predicament Number Two: The same e-mail folder structure
The email folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too severely.
Shortcoming Number Three: An entire absence of domain administration tools
Do we have to point out the thorough shortage of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a big drawback. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...
Downside Number 4: Many user login places (min two, max three)
What about the need for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Web Hosting corporation. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction tool (especially meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting supplier is making use of, the avid users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).
Negative Sign No.5: More than one hundred and twenty CP areas to grasp... swiftly
cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting vendors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...
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