How Does cPanel Web Hosting Operate?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace offer strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/CP alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names worldwide will give you the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled most web hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Drawback No.1: A foolish domain folder system
If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder system 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 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)
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 becoming bewildered? We definitely are!
Weak Side No.2: The same e-mail folder structure
The email folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too irretrievably.
Negative Side Number Three: A thorough lack of domain name manipulation options
Do we need to bring up the utter lack of a contemporary domain management platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a major predicament. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...
Weak Side No.4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)
How about the need for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Web Hosting company. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting provider is using, the devoted users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Shortcoming Number 5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... quickly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting companies:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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