How cPanel Web Hosting Operates
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which supplies an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace offer literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on today's website hosting market is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably met most website hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Downside Number One: A stupid domain folder configuration
If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite 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 popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 domain names, please. Check for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 getting disorientated? We undeniably are!
Problem Number 2: The very same mail folder setup
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to screw things up too severely.
Drawback Number Three: A complete deficiency of domain name management user interfaces
Do we need to mention the utter shortage of a modern domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" section at all. That's an immense drawback. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...
Downside Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)
What about the need for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting service provider. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction system (especially intended for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting supplier is availing of, the keen clients can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Weak Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... promptly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web 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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