How Does cPanel Website Hosting Function?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel Website Hosting offerings on today's web hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which provides a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire hosting market furnish strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks around 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 differently named
The Website Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an average chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel CP and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps satisfied all website hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Disadvantage Number 1: A stupid domain folder configuration
If you have two or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 disorientated? We definitely are!
Problem No.2: The very same mail folder configuration
The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly reinforce their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too irretrievably.
Weak Point Number 3: An entire absence of domain name administration user interfaces
Do we have to point out the sheer absence of a modern domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a major downside. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...
Weakness Number 4: Many login locations (min 2, maximum 3)
How about the demand for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Website Hosting firm. Now and then, based on the billing transaction platform (especially built for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting company is availing of, the earnest users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Weak Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to pick up... briskly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting firms:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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