Explanation of cPanel Website Hosting
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which generates an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200k web hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel CP and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably met all web hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Aspect Number 1: A laughable domain name folder configuration
If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next 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 server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how great 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)
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)
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 getting nonplussed? We definitely are!
Negative Sign Number Two: The same email folder structure
The mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly increase their faith in God when managing the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.
Shortcoming No.3: A complete lack of domain name management options
Do we need to point out the absolute lack of a modern domain name management interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" menu at all. That's an immense weakness. An unforgivable one, we want to add...
Negative Aspect Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, maximum three)
What about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Website Hosting corporation. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing tool (especially devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting service provider is making use of, the earnest clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).
Predicament No.5: 120+ web hosting CP areas to get familiar with... swiftly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...
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