How Does cPanel Website Hosting Operate?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel Website Hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace provide exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a regular bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 website hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the current web hosting market is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The pros and cons of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably answered most web hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Aspect Number One: A foolish domain folder setup
If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite 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 located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder structure is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)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)
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)
Are you becoming confused? We undoubtedly are!
Weak Side No.2: The same mail folder setup
The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly increase their belief in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too badly.
Downside Number Three: An entire lack of domain administration menus
Do we have to refer to the entire lack of a contemporary domain manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a vast weakness. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...
Disadvantage No.4: Many login locations (min two, maximum three)
What about the need for an extra login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Website Hosting vendor. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction system (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting firm is availing of, the ardent users can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).
Weak Point Number 5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... promptly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting distributors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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