Definition of cPanel Web Hosting
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on the present website hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which generates a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a normal guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k web hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brand names around the world will give you strictly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present-day website hosting market is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied all hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Disadvantage Number One: A dumb domain folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 bewildered? We clearly are!
Negative Point Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement
The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly increase their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.
Disadvantage Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain management user interfaces
Do we have to refer to the total deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a considerable weakness. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...
Negative Aspect No.4: Multiple login locations (min 2, max three)
What about the need for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Web Hosting corporation. At times, based on the invoicing system (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting vendor is availing of, the eager clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).
Disadvantage Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... fast
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting corporations:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...
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