How Does cPanel Website Hosting Work?
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offers on today's website hosting market are provided by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The Website Hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an average person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands in the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present web hosting market is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple math shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered most website hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Side Number One: A moronic domain folder system
If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how terrific 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)
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 name)
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)
Are you becoming confused? We positively are!
Disadvantage No.2: The same mail folder configuration
The e-mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly fortify their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too harshly.
Predicament Number 3: An utter shortage of domain name management GUIs
Do we have to mention the total absence of a contemporary domain management interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" user interface at all. That's an enormous weakness. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...
Weak Point No.4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max three)
What about the need for an extra login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Website Hosting distributor. Occasionally, based on the invoicing tool (principally invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting provider is using, the enthusiastic users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).
Downside Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP sections to grasp... briskly
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting corporations:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...
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