How Does cPanel Website Hosting Operate?
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market supply one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k web hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the contemporary website hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps answered most hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Disadvantage Number One: A dumb domain name folder configuration
If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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)
Are you getting bewildered? We absolutely are!
Negative Sign Number 2: The same e-mail folder system
The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly increase their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too severely.
Problem Number Three: A sheer absence of domain administration interfaces
Do we need to cite the utter lack of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...
Weak Point Number 4: Multiple login places (min 2, max 3)
What about the necessity for an extra login to use the billing, domain and technical support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Website Hosting corporation. Now and then, on the basis of the billing tool (principally intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting company is making use of, the avid users can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Weakness No.5: 120+ CP sections to become acquainted with... promptly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting service providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...
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