How Does cPanel Website Hosting Operate?
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace supply literally the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names 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 corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a regular bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands in the world will give you literally the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered all website hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Disadvantage No.1: A laughable domain name folder configuration
If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the server, because they all are situated 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 name)
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 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 name)
Are you growing bewildered? We unquestionably are!
Problem Number Two: The very same e-mail folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too badly.
Shortcoming No.3: A sheer absence of domain name management options
Do we have to mention the sheer lack of a contemporary domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a major drawback. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...
Shortcoming Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max 3)
How about the necessity for an additional login to use the billing, domain and technical support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Website Hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing system (principally built for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting supplier is using, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain name administration user interface; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of three user login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to become acquainted with... quickly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting vendors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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