How cPanel Web Hosting Operates
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet providing exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200k "Web Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The Web Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an ordinary chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands worldwide will give you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present website hosting market is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered most hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Sign No.1: An idiotic domain folder configuration
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain 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 name)
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 name)
Are you growing confused? We definitely are!
Predicament No.2: The very same e-mail folder system
The mail folder structure on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too seriously.
Problem Number Three: A total absence of domain name management menus
Do we have to cite the utter lack of a modern domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" menu at all. That's an immense shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...
Weak Side No.4: Many login places (min two, max three)
How about the demand for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting service provider. Now and then, depending on the invoicing tool (especially developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting company is availing of, the avid customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain name administration software solution; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Drawback Number 5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... promptly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the CP. It's an excellent idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting distributors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...
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