How cPanel Hosting Operates
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business niche, which generates a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market offer the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP option. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200,000 "Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brands in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present hosting market is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied most website hosting market preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Point No.1: A laughable domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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. Discover for yourself how amazing 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 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)
Are you becoming bewildered? We surely are!
Drawback Number Two: The same mail folder arrangement
The mail folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly enhance their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too fatally.
Negative Point Number Three: An utter shortage of domain name management tools
Do we have to point out the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain name management menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an enormous predicament. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...
Inconvenience No.4: Many user login places (min two, max 3)
How about the need for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Hosting service provider. At times, depending on the invoicing platform (principally tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting provider is using, the avid clients can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Problem Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP menus to learn... rapidly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting firms:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...
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