How Does cPanel Web Hosting Work?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on the current website hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering strictly the same solutions: mostly 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 offers on the whole web hosting market supply precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The Web Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names worldwide will give you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple mathematics shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly fulfilled all website hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Point No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful 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). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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 remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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 becoming disorientated? We absolutely are!
Weak Point Number 2: The very same mail folder system
The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly enhance their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too gravely.
Weak Side Number 3: A thorough absence of domain management options
Do we have to bring up the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a big shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we want to add...
Problem No.4: Many login locations (minimum 2, max three)
What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and technical support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Web Hosting service provider. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (especially intended for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting supplier is using, the devoted users can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Sign No.5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... promptly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
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