cPanel Hosting Unveiled
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting market furnish exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200,000 "Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
The Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an average bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand 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 brand names in the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied most website hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Point Number One: A ludicrous domain folder system
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)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 puzzled? We certainly are!
Negative Point Number 2: The very same email folder configuration
The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly increase their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too severely.
Negative Side Number Three: A sheer lack of domain administration sections
Do we need to mention the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" section at all. That's an enormous downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...
Disadvantage Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min two, max three)
How about the necessity for another login to avail of the billing, domain and tech support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Hosting company. At times, based on the billing tool (principally intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting vendor is utilizing, the keen customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Problem Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to become acquainted with... rapidly
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting distributors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...
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