How Does cPanel Website Hosting Work?
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel Website Hosting offerings on today's website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which supplies a big quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market offer literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary bloke who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 website hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably met most website hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weakness Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to erase fully 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 quite simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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)
Are you becoming perplexed? We clearly are!
Shortcoming Number 2: The very same mail folder arrangement
The mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly increase their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too seriously.
Negative Aspect Number Three: A complete shortage of domain name manipulation sections
Do we need to point out the total shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a great shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...
Weakness Number Four: Many login locations (min two, max three)
What about the demand for another login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support management software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Website Hosting distributor. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (especially devised for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting vendor is making use of, the ardent clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).
Downside Number Five: 120+ web hosting CP menus to memorize... fast
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting companies:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...
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