How cPanel Website Hosting Works
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are generated by a very insignificant business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole hosting market provide one and the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
200k "Website Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an average person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k website hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on today's web hosting market is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered most website hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Point Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration
If you have two or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 name)
Are you getting disorientated? We unquestionably are!
Downside No.2: The same electronic mail folder system
The email folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly enhance their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.
Drawback Number Three: A sheer lack of domain name manipulation interfaces
Do we need to point out the total absence of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a mammoth downside. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...
Weak Side Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)
How about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain and technical support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Website Hosting service provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (principally made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting provider is availing of, the ardent customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Downside Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... briskly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...
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