How Does cPanel Website Hosting Function?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market provide one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. So, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200k "Website Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular fellow who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can select? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names worldwide will give you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled all hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Aspect No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to remove fully 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). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 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 growing perplexed? We surely are!
Negative Sign Number 2: The very same e-mail folder configuration
The email folder configuration on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly strengthen their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too gravely.
Weakness Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain administration menus
Do we need to point out the complete absence of a contemporary domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" tool at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...
Weakness Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max three)
How about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain and technical support administration software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Website Hosting firm. At times, based on the billing tool (principally invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting supplier is utilizing, the avid users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Inconvenience No.5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to get acquainted with... briskly
cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting service providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...
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