How Does cPanel Web Hosting Operate?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market offer absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200k "Web Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely a normal guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k website hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different hosting brand names worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple mathematics shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably met most web hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weakness Number 1: A laughable domain folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 domain names, please. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 getting disorientated? We doubtlessly are!
Negative Side No.2: The same e-mail folder structure
The e-mail folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly increase their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too seriously.
Shortcoming Number Three: A sheer lack of domain manipulation GUIs
Do we have to cite the utter absence of a modern domain name manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an immense problem. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...
Predicament Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum 2, max three)
How about the need for an additional login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management section? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing tool (especially conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting supplier is making use of, the enthusiastic customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).
Drawback Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... briskly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting companies:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...
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