How Does cPanel Website Hosting Operate?
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on the current web hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace provide the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The Website Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are simply a regular person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the contemporary website hosting market is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably answered all hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Predicament Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how terrific 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 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 disorientated? We certainly are!
Negative Side Number 2: The very same mail folder system
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly increase their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too badly.
Downside No.3: An utter deficiency of domain manipulation options
Do we have to refer to the sheer lack of a modern domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" interface at all. That's a colossal weakness. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...
Shortcoming Number 4: Multiple login places (minimum two, max three)
How about the need for an additional login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management user interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Website Hosting company. Now and then, based on the billing platform (especially made for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting vendor is availing of, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).
Weak Point Number 5: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... briskly
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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