cPanel Hosting Unmasked
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...
200,000 "Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are just an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands across the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered most website hosting business preconditions. 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 domains...
Negative Side No.1: A dumb domain folder configuration
If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent 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 delete on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how amazing 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 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)
Are you growing baffled? We absolutely are!
Weak Point Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement
The email folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the email server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.
Negative Aspect Number Three: An utter absence of domain manipulation menus
Do we need to mention the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's an enormous disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...
Shortcoming Number 4: Many user login places (minimum 2, max 3)
What about the demand for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain and technical support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Hosting supplier. Now and then, depending on the invoicing tool (particularly meant for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting provider is using, the earnest users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).
Disadvantage No.5: More than 120 website hosting CP departments to memorize... rapidly
cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...
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