What Does cPanel Website Hosting Represent?
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
200k "Website Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an ordinary guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k web hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps met most web hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Inconvenience Number One: A dumb domain folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the web server, because they all are located 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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!
Weak Point Number Two: The same mail folder configuration
The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too gravely.
Shortcoming Number 3: A sheer shortage of domain management tools
Do we need to bring up the utter shortage of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a huge weakness. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...
Drawback No.4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)
What about the demand for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management software? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Website Hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction system (particularly built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting provider is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name administration GUI; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Inconvenience No.5: More than 120 web hosting CP areas to get familiar with... fast
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting suppliers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
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