How cPanel Website Hosting Works
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing strictly the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the whole web hosting market offer precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brands worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly covered most website hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Shortcoming Number 1: A stupid domain folder configuration
If you have two or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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 puzzled? We surely are!
Negative Aspect No.2: The same mail folder system
The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly fortify their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too fatally.
Shortcoming Number 3: A total lack of domain name administration sections
Do we have to mention the utter lack of a contemporary domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a colossal drawback. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...
Problem Number 4: Numerous user login places (min two, maximum three)
What about the need for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Website Hosting vendor. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing platform (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting firm is availing of, the earnest users can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Point Number Five: 120+ CP menus to learn... promptly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting corporations:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...
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