How Does cPanel Web Hosting Work?
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on the present-day web hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace supply one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200k "Web Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names all over the world will give you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present hosting market is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met all web hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Drawback Number 1: A laughable domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web server, since they all are placed 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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)
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 becoming bewildered? We certainly are!
Disadvantage No.2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration
The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too seriously.
Negative Aspect Number Three: An absolute lack of domain name management options
Do we have to bring up the entire absence of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" section at all. That's a gigantic inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we want to add...
Disadvantage Number 4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)
What about the necessity for another login to access the billing, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Web Hosting provider. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction platform (especially created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting provider is utilizing, the zealous users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Sign No.5: More than 120 website hosting CP sections to learn... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...
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