Description of cPanel Website Hosting
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel Website Hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace provide the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an average fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names in the world will give you the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably covered all web hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Side Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder system 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 name)
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 growing confused? We categorically are!
Inconvenience Number 2: The very same e-mail folder system
The email folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too gravely.
Problem Number Three: An utter shortage of domain management user interfaces
Do we need to refer to the thorough lack of a modern domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois info, secure the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a colossal downside. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...
Drawback Number Four: Many user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)
How about the need for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Website Hosting corporation. At times, depending on the invoicing system (especially tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting firm is utilizing, the keen users can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration menu; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).
Shortcoming Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... briskly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting service providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...
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