How cPanel Website Hosting Works
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are supplied by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which provides a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting marketplace offer literally the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a regular guy 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 respective domain names and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps fulfilled all web hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Shortcoming No.1: A foolish domain folder structure
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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 becoming confused? We absolutely are!
Shortcoming Number 2: The same mail folder setup
The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too badly.
Drawback Number Three: An absolute lack of domain name manipulation menus
Do we have to mention the utter absence of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a great problem. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...
Negative Point No.4: Many user login places (min 2, maximum 3)
What about the demand for another login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Website Hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction system (particularly meant for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting company is making use of, the earnest users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management system; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Problem Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to get familiar with... quickly
cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting suppliers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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