Definition of cPanel Web Hosting
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on the current website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small business niche, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The Web Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brands in the world will offer you the very same cPanel Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled all website hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Downside No.1: A laughable domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 name)
Are you getting puzzled? We doubtlessly are!
Weakness No.2: The same e-mail folder arrangement
The email folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too fatally.
Downside Number Three: A thorough shortage of domain administration interfaces
Do we need to refer to the total deficiency of a modern domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's an enormous weakness. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...
Drawback Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum three)
What about the need for another login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Web Hosting distributor. At times, based on the invoice transaction tool (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting vendor is availing of, the earnest users can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Sign Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP menus to get familiar with... quickly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting service providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...
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