How Does cPanel Web Hosting Function?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on the current website hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering precisely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a regular bloke who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present-day website hosting market is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly met most web hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Drawback Number 1: A moronic domain name folder system
If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to erase 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). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
Are you growing confused? We unquestionably are!
Negative Point No.2: The very same mail folder arrangement
The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too severely.
Inconvenience Number 3: A total deficiency of domain name manipulation GUIs
Do we need to mention the complete absence of a contemporary domain management tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a huge predicament. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...
Shortcoming Number Four: Many user login locations (min 2, max 3)
What about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Web Hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the billing tool (principally created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting firm is availing of, the eager clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain management system; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).
Weak Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to pick up... promptly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...
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