How Does cPanel Web Hosting Function?
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace supply exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...
200k "Web Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The Web Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a regular chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k website hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the current hosting market is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied all hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Point Number One: A ludicrous domain folder structure
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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)
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 baffled? We categorically are!
Negative Point No.2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement
The email folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too badly.
Weak Point Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain name administration tools
Do we need to cite the thorough absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" tool at all. That's a considerable inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...
Downside Number 4: Numerous login places (min two, max 3)
How about the necessity for an extra login to access the billing transaction, domain and technical support management menu? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Web Hosting company. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing transaction system (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting company is utilizing, the eager clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).
Negative Side Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to memorize... rapidly
cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...
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