cPanel Hosting Disclosed
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offers on today's website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace provide precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200k "Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The Hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an ordinary guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 website hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands worldwide will give you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled all website hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Inconvenience Number One: A dumb domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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 domains, please. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 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 growing nonplussed? We definitely are!
Weak Side Number Two: The very same mail folder arrangement
The email folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.
Weak Side Number Three: A sheer deficiency of domain name administration menus
Do we need to point out the utter lack of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a huge predicament. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...
Inconvenience Number 4: Many login locations (min 2, maximum three)
How about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Hosting provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing system (especially developed for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting vendor is using, the devoted customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Weak Point No.5: 120+ hosting Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... briskly
cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
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