How Does cPanel Hosting Operate?
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offers on the present website hosting marketplace are generated by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which provides an enormous amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market provide exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200k "Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded
The Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique hosting brand names all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered all website hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Disadvantage No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder system
If you have two or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)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 disorientated? We definitely are!
Shortcoming No.2: The very same e-mail folder configuration
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly strengthen their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too irretrievably.
Weak Point Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain manipulation interfaces
Do we have to mention the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...
Negative Point Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)
What about the demand for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (particularly devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting distributor is using, the ardent customers can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).
Inconvenience Number Five: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel menus to become familiar with... quickly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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