How cPanel Website Hosting Operates
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace offer one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
200k "Website Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an ordinary guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brands in the world will give you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present web hosting market is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably covered all web hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Downside Number 1: A ludicrous domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new 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 hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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 domains, please. See for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder structure is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)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)
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 name)
Are you growing bewildered? We certainly are!
Weak Point Number Two: The same mail folder structure
The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too irretrievably.
Shortcoming Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain name manipulation tools
Do we have to mention the thorough lack of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" interface at all. That's a considerable problem. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...
Weakness No.4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, maximum three)
What about the need for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management system? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Website Hosting service provider. At times, on the basis of the invoicing system (especially made for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting company is availing of, the devoted users can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration system; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).
Weakness Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to learn... quickly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a fine idea to learn each of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting companies:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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