How Does cPanel Website Hosting Work?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on the current website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market supply literally the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a normal guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, at present there are more than 200k web hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names in the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered most website hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Side Number 1: A laughable domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 getting puzzled? We unquestionably are!
Negative Point Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder setup
The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too irretrievably.
Disadvantage Number 3: An utter shortage of domain name administration GUIs
Do we need to bring up the thorough deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a considerable drawback. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...
Shortcoming Number 4: Many user login places (min two, maximum 3)
What about the need for another login to make use of the invoice 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 Website Hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the invoicing tool (especially intended for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting vendor is utilizing, the ardent clients can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain name administration software; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Downside Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to memorize... rapidly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to learn each of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting suppliers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...
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