Description of cPanel Web Hosting
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on the current website hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting market furnish precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
200k "Web Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The Web Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a normal guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present web hosting market is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied most web hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Inconvenience No.1: A dumb domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to delete 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 remove 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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 getting perplexed? We positively are!
Inconvenience No.2: The very same mail folder structure
The email folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too badly.
Inconvenience Number Three: A total lack of domain name manipulation tools
Do we have to refer to the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a colossal inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...
Downside Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min 2, max three)
How about the necessity for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Web Hosting provider. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing system (particularly made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting supplier is using, the ardent clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).
Weakness No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to learn... fast
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them swiftly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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