cPanel Website Hosting Unmasked
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on today's web hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting market provide one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an average chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel CP and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied most web hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Disadvantage No.1: An idiotic domain name folder configuration
If you have two or more domains, though, be very attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 getting disorientated? We definitely are!
Negative Sign No.2: The very same mail folder setup
The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too seriously.
Downside No.3: An utter shortage of domain administration interfaces
Do we have to bring up the total deficiency of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a vast predicament. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...
Negative Side Number 4: Many login locations (min 2, max three)
How about the need for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Website Hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction tool (principally built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting company is making use of, the avid clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management system; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).
Inconvenience Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... briskly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting suppliers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...
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