How cPanel Hosting Works
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel Hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market offer literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...
200k "Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are just a normal person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 website hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands in the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on today's website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered most web hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Inconvenience No.1: A laughable domain name folder configuration
If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain 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)
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 growing baffled? We unquestionably are!
Drawback Number Two: The very same mail folder system
The electronic mail folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly fortify their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too irreparably.
Weak Point Number 3: A complete lack of domain manipulation menus
Do we have to mention the absolute deficiency of a modern domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" menu at all. That's an immense shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...
Shortcoming No.4: Numerous user login locations (min two, max 3)
How about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain name and tech support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Hosting service provider. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction system (principally intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting service provider is using, the avid customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management section; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).
Weak Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... quickly
cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...
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