Description of cPanel Website Hosting
For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which provides a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing exactly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire website hosting market offer exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different hosting brands across the world will give you precisely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered all website hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Problem No.1: A ludicrous domain folder arrangement
If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to remove completely 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). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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 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)
Are you growing bewildered? We categorically are!
Shortcoming Number Two: The very same email folder arrangement
The email folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly increase their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to botch things up too irretrievably.
Problem Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain name management sections
Do we need to point out the complete lack of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" section at all. That's a vast shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...
Drawback Number 4: Multiple login places (minimum two, max three)
How about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Website Hosting provider. At times, based on the billing tool (particularly developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting service provider is making use of, the keen customers can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Inconvenience Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel menus to memorize... rapidly
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting corporations:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...
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