Explanation of cPanel Web Hosting
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market provide one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a regular chap 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 domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands in the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled most web hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Side Number One: An idiotic domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Determine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)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)
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 getting nonplussed? We surely are!
Negative Sign No.2: The very same mail folder structure
The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly strengthen their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.
Inconvenience No.3: A complete absence of domain administration sections
Do we have to refer to the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" tool at all. That's a mammoth inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...
Downside Number Four: Numerous user login places (minimum two, max 3)
How about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Web Hosting vendor. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing platform (particularly developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting vendor is using, the ardent customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).
Predicament Number Five: More than 120 website hosting CP menus to pick up... briskly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting distributors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...
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