cPanel Website Hosting Disclosed
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the entire hosting marketplace offer one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...
200k "Website Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names across the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on today's hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered most web hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Shortcoming Number 1: A laughable domain folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 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)
Are you getting perplexed? We definitely are!
Weak Point Number Two: The very same e-mail folder setup
The email folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly enhance their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too severely.
Negative Sign No.3: A total deficiency of domain name administration sections
Do we need to mention the sheer absence of a modern domain management platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a vast problem. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...
Weak Side No.4: Many login locations (min two, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for an extra login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Website Hosting distributor. At times, depending on the billing transaction platform (especially intended for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting company is availing of, the keen clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration GUI; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Point No.5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... quickly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting suppliers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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