How Does cPanel Website Hosting Work?
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which provides an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace provide literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200k "Website Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The Website Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different hosting brands worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably covered all website hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Shortcoming Number One: An idiotic domain folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder setup is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)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 growing perplexed? We certainly are!
Downside No.2: The same e-mail folder structure
The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too fatally.
Weak Point No.3: A total lack of domain management GUIs
Do we have to point out the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a gigantic drawback. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...
Negative Point Number 4: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max three)
How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain and tech support administration system? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Website Hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing system (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting service provider is using, the devoted customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).
Weak Side Number 5: 120+ web hosting Control Panel areas to learn... quickly
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them quickly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...
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