What Precisely is cPanel Website Hosting?
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offerings on the present website hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace offer the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably answered all website hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Problem Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the hosting 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 name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)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)
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 confused? We definitely are!
Negative Side No.2: The same e-mail folder arrangement
The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.
Negative Aspect No.3: An entire shortage of domain administration GUIs
Do we need to point out the thorough absence of a modern domain management platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a considerable predicament. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...
Negative Side Number 4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max 3)
How about the necessity for an additional login to use the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Website Hosting firm. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing tool (principally built for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting firm is availing of, the keen clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Aspect No.5: More than 120 hosting CP sections to memorize... rapidly
cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting distributors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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