How Does cPanel Web Hosting Function?
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which generates a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market supply one and the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...
200k "Web Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
The Web Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 website hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the current web hosting market is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider 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 Web Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably met all website hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Sign Number One: A dumb domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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)
Are you becoming baffled? We undeniably are!
Inconvenience No.2: The very same email folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too seriously.
Weakness Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain name management user interfaces
Do we have to cite the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain management platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an enormous weakness. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...
Weakness Number Four: Numerous login places (min 2, maximum 3)
How about the need for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain name and technical support management menu? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Web Hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction platform (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting service provider is making use of, the earnest clients can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Aspect Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to become acquainted with... rapidly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting companies:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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