How cPanel Hosting Works
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offerings on today's hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace supply one and the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200,000 "Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed
The Hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a regular bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k web hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names around the world will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the contemporary website hosting market is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps covered most web hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Point Number One: A ludicrous domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely attentive not to remove fully 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). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)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 bewildered? We clearly are!
Disadvantage Number Two: The same e-mail folder structure
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly increase their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.
Disadvantage No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain name manipulation options
Do we need to bring up the absolute deficiency of a modern domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a mammoth predicament. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...
Negative Point Number Four: Numerous user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)
What about the demand for an extra login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and technical support management software? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Hosting company. At times, based on the billing tool (principally designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting firm is availing of, the enthusiastic clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).
Weak Point No.5: 120+ hosting Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... quickly
cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting corporations:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...
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