What Does cPanel Hosting Signify?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200k "Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a regular guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 website hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brands worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably fulfilled most web hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Problem No.1: A stupid domain folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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 name)
Are you growing nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!
Negative Point Number Two: The very same email folder setup
The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.
Shortcoming Number 3: A total shortage of domain name management menus
Do we have to bring up the total deficiency of a modern domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a considerable predicament. An unpardonable one, we want to add...
Shortcoming Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum 2, max three)
How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Hosting vendor. At times, based on the invoicing system (principally devised for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting service provider is making use of, the devoted users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Weak Point No.5: More than 120 hosting Control Panel menus to get familiar with... quickly
cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting suppliers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...
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