Definition of cPanel Web Hosting
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which supplies a great number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: mainly 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 entire web hosting market provide one and the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on today's website hosting market is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly covered most web hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Drawback Number One: A ludicrous domain folder configuration
If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)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 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)
Are you becoming confused? We absolutely are!
Downside No.2: The same mail folder structure
The mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly fortify their faith in God when handling the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.
Negative Aspect Number Three: A sheer absence of domain name management menus
Do we have to mention the complete absence of a contemporary domain administration platform - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois info, protect the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a big problem. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...
Predicament Number 4: Numerous user login places (minimum two, max three)
What about the necessity for another login to make use of the invoicing, domain and technical support administration section? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting corporation. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (principally conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting provider is making use of, the avid users can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Weak Side Number Five: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel menus to become acquainted with... quickly
cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's very insolent 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? Mark that one too...
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