How cPanel Web Hosting Operates
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on today's web hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace supply one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an average bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique hosting brands around the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably covered all web hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Drawback Number 1: A stupid domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how wonderful 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)
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 becoming bewildered? We categorically are!
Negative Sign No.2: The very same electronic mail folder structure
The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly fortify their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too severely.
Predicament Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain name administration menus
Do we need to cite the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an enormous problem. An unpardonable one, we want to add...
Inconvenience No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max 3)
What about the need for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting company. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction system (especially made for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting provider is using, the keen customers can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software solution; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).
Weak Side Number 5: 120+ Control Panel menus to memorize... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web 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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