Explanation of cPanel Web Hosting
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace supply strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names across the world will give you the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably answered most web hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Sign No.1: A moronic domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to remove entirely 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 domains are very easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how excellent 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)
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 categorically are!
Drawback Number 2: The same email folder configuration
The email folder configuration on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.
Negative Point No.3: An absolute deficiency of domain name manipulation GUIs
Do we have to bring up the total shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a huge drawback. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...
Weak Side Number Four: Many login locations (min two, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Web Hosting distributor. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (principally made for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting provider is utilizing, the eager users can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Drawback No.5: More than 120 Control Panel areas to grasp... promptly
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting corporations:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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