What Does cPanel Website Hosting Represent?
For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on the present-day hosting market are furnished by a very insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which provides a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace supply one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a normal fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k web hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names around the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably met most website hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Aspect Number One: An idiotic domain folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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)
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 bewildered? We certainly are!
Inconvenience No.2: The same mail folder structure
The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly increase their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.
Weak Point Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain name administration options
Do we need to refer to the utter shortage of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a mammoth weakness. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...
Downside Number Four: Numerous user login places (min two, maximum three)
What about the demand for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain and tech support administration software solution? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Website Hosting service provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (particularly invented for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting provider is using, the eager users can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).
Disadvantage No.5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... quickly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the website hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get to know them quickly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting vendors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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