Description of cPanel Web Hosting
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering absolutely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market provide precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands all over the world will give you the very same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably satisfied all web hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Downside Number 1: A moronic domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed 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 name folder setup 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 name)
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 name)
Are you growing puzzled? We absolutely are!
Drawback Number Two: The same email folder arrangement
The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.
Problem Number 3: An utter shortage of domain name administration menus
Do we have to point out the total absence of a modern domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a gigantic weakness. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...
Weak Point Number 4: Numerous user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)
What about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Web Hosting vendor. At times, based on the billing transaction tool (particularly tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting service provider is making use of, the eager users can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain name administration software; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Shortcoming Number 5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... promptly
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 sections inside the hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting suppliers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...
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