Explanation of cPanel Website Hosting
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on the current hosting market are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace supply one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
200k "Website Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average chap who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands in the world will offer you the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple math demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered all web hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Disadvantage Number 1: A laughable domain folder system
If you have two or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder structure is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)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 name)
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 becoming perplexed? We clearly are!
Negative Sign No.2: The same e-mail folder setup
The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.
Disadvantage Number Three: A complete deficiency of domain management GUIs
Do we need to cite the entire absence of a modern domain name management interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" interface at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...
Predicament Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)
What about the demand for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain and tech support administration system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Website Hosting provider. At times, depending on the billing transaction system (principally invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting service provider is utilizing, the devoted users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management software; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Drawback No.5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel departments to get familiar with... rapidly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting service providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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