How Does cPanel Website Hosting Function?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire hosting market furnish the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
200k "Website Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a normal chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled all web hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Side No.1: A moronic domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to delete fully 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 domain names are quite easy to erase on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 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 name)
Are you growing baffled? We certainly are!
Weak Side Number 2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement
The email folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too seriously.
Problem No.3: An utter shortage of domain manipulation menus
Do we have to cite the sheer absence of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a major shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...
Inconvenience Number Four: Many login locations (minimum 2, max three)
What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management menu? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Website Hosting vendor. At times, depending on the billing tool (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting distributor is availing of, the keen users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... rapidly
cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting companies:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...
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