How Does cPanel Web Hosting Work?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace supply the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The Web Hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an average guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names around the world will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple math shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered all website hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Drawback Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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. Decide for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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 name)
Are you growing disorientated? We unquestionably are!
Disadvantage Number 2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement
The email folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly increase their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too gravely.
Negative Sign Number Three: A total absence of domain administration menus
Do we have to mention the utter deficiency of a modern domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a big predicament. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...
Shortcoming No.4: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)
How about the demand for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain and tech support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Web Hosting supplier. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing platform (especially tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting supplier is utilizing, the zealous clients can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).
Disadvantage Number Five: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... briskly
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...
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