cPanel Website Hosting Uncovered
For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel Website Hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace supply the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The Website Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands all over the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably met all hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Shortcoming Number 1: A foolish domain folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to remove entirely 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous 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 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)
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 becoming confused? We undeniably are!
Predicament Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly enhance their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too irretrievably.
Inconvenience No.3: An utter absence of domain administration menus
Do we have to refer to the entire deficiency of a modern domain name management user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a big weakness. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...
Shortcoming No.4: Numerous login places (min 2, max three)
How about the necessity for an extra login to use the billing, domain and technical support management menu? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Website Hosting provider. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction platform (especially conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting firm is availing of, the enthusiastic users can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).
Problem No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to memorize... quickly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting suppliers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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