How Does cPanel Website Hosting Operate?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market supply strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/hosting CP alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
200k "Website Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The Website Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brands in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably covered most web hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Predicament Number 1: A laughable domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name 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)
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 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 name)
Are you growing bewildered? We categorically are!
Negative Aspect No.2: The same e-mail folder arrangement
The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly fortify their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too severely.
Shortcoming Number 3: A total shortage of domain administration interfaces
Do we need to cite the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois details, shield the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a gigantic drawback. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...
Problem No.4: Numerous user login locations (min two, max three)
What about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and tech support management platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Website Hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction system (especially made for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting vendor is using, the devoted users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).
Inconvenience Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel departments to pick up... fast
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting companies:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...
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