How cPanel Website Hosting Works
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace provide the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is only 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%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an average chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Sure there is, as of 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 hosting brands across the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the present website hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly met most hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weakness Number 1: A moronic domain folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra careful not to delete entirely 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). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are situated 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain 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 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 baffled? We undoubtedly are!
Downside No.2: The same electronic mail folder setup
The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too seriously.
Negative Aspect Number 3: An entire shortage of domain name management interfaces
Do we have to cite the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain management interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" tool at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...
Negative Point Number 4: Multiple user login places (min two, maximum three)
What about the need for another login to use the invoicing, domain and tech support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Website Hosting vendor. Sometimes, based on the invoice transaction tool (especially developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting supplier is making use of, the eager users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Predicament No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... rapidly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting service providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...
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