What Does cPanel Website Hosting Represent?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on today's website hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which generates a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering absolutely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole hosting market provide precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/CP option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The Website Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an average chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names across the world will give you precisely the same cPanel CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied most website hosting industry prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Predicament Number One: A laughable domain folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next 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 hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 becoming bewildered? We categorically are!
Predicament Number 2: The same e-mail folder arrangement
The e-mail folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly fortify their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.
Drawback Number 3: A total absence of domain name management sections
Do we have to bring up the entire lack of a modern domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a colossal shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...
Shortcoming Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min two, max three)
How about the need for an additional login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Website Hosting firm. Now and then, based on the invoicing system (principally developed for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting provider is availing of, the ardent customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Problem No.5: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel menus to pick up... briskly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting corporations:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...
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