cPanel Website Hosting Explanation
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offers on the current website hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the whole web hosting market supply one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k 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 "Website Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The Website Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 website hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met all hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Point Number 1: An idiotic domain folder setup
If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 growing confused? We clearly are!
Shortcoming Number Two: The same e-mail folder system
The mail folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly increase their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.
Problem Number Three: An utter absence of domain name administration tools
Do we need to point out the absolute absence of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a great weakness. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...
Weakness Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min two, maximum 3)
How about the demand for another login to make use of the billing, domain name and technical support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Website Hosting service provider. At times, on the basis of the billing system (particularly created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting firm is availing of, the keen clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name management software; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).
Weak Point No.5: More than 120 web hosting CP menus to grasp... briskly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting service providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...
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