How Does cPanel Web Hosting Work?
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which supplies a big number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market furnish the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
200k "Web Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The Web Hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present website hosting market is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly fulfilled most website hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Aspect Number One: A foolish domain folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 perplexed? We clearly are!
Inconvenience No.2: The very same email folder system
The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly increase their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.
Negative Side No.3: A sheer shortage of domain manipulation sections
Do we need to point out the total lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois info, shield the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" tool at all. That's a gigantic problem. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...
Disadvantage Number 4: Many user login locations (min two, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for another login to use the billing, domain and technical support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting vendor. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (particularly meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting service provider is using, the zealous customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain administration software platform; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).
Downside Number 5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel areas to get acquainted with... fast
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a great idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting corporations:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...
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