How cPanel Hosting Works
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based Hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace supply the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200k "Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a regular guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on today's web hosting market is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps met most website hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Sign Number 1: A dumb domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name 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 name)
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 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 perplexed? We doubtlessly are!
Weak Side Number 2: The very same mail folder configuration
The e-mail folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too irretrievably.
Weakness No.3: A complete shortage of domain name management sections
Do we have to cite the complete absence of a modern domain management interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" menu at all. That's an enormous problem. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...
Negative Side No.4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, maximum three)
What about the demand for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Hosting service provider. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction tool (particularly made for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting company is utilizing, the earnest clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Sign Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty Control Panel areas to pick up... quickly
cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...
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