cPanel Web Hosting Uncovered
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing the very same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace provide the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an ordinary fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 website hosting service providers in existence. 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 offer you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps answered all web hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Side Number One: A foolish domain name folder configuration
If you have two or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to remove entirely 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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 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 name)
Are you becoming confused? We definitely are!
Shortcoming Number Two: The very same e-mail folder configuration
The email folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.
Negative Side Number Three: A thorough lack of domain management sections
Do we need to point out the entire absence of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a huge inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...
Weak Side No.4: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum three)
How about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain and tech support management menu? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Web Hosting provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (principally built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting supplier is availing of, the earnest users can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration GUI; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).
Weakness Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel departments to learn... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting vendors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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