What Does cPanel Web Hosting Mean?
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting market offer the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...
200k "Web Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an average person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k website hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably covered most web hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Side Number One: A dumb domain folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how terrific 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 name)
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 name)
Are you growing puzzled? We positively are!
Drawback Number 2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too irretrievably.
Negative Sign No.3: An utter lack of domain name administration menus
Do we need to point out the complete shortage of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we want to add...
Negative Aspect Number 4: Many login locations (minimum two, max three)
How about the demand for another login to access the billing transaction, domain and tech support management section? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Web Hosting vendor. Sometimes, based on the invoicing system (particularly conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting firm is making use of, the keen clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Point No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... briskly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the CP. It's a fabulous idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting suppliers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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