Description of cPanel Web Hosting
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on today's website hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting market offer one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/CP alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
200k "Web Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The Web Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a regular chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site development processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k web hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands all over the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly satisfied all web hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Sign Number 1: A laughable domain folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next 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 delete on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 name)
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 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 becoming disorientated? We certainly are!
Negative Aspect Number Two: The very same e-mail folder arrangement
The email folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.
Shortcoming No.3: A thorough absence of domain name administration tools
Do we need to cite the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we want to add...
Weakness No.4: Multiple user login places (min 2, maximum 3)
How about the need for an additional login to access the billing, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Web Hosting distributor. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction system (principally devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting service provider is making use of, the avid users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Sign No.5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel menus to memorize... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the CP. It's a superb idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...
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