How Does cPanel Website Hosting Operate?
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel Website Hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which supplies a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market provide the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply 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 two percent, note that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The Website Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an ordinary guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands in the world will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the contemporary hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps answered most web hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Disadvantage No.1: An imbecilic domain name folder system
If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder structure is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)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)
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 growing baffled? We categorically are!
Negative Point No.2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration
The mail folder configuration on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly strengthen their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too badly.
Inconvenience Number 3: An absolute absence of domain administration sections
Do we have to cite the entire shortage of a modern domain management tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" section at all. That's a major downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...
Shortcoming Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min two, maximum three)
How about the demand for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Website Hosting provider. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing system (particularly built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting firm is availing of, the zealous users can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Predicament Number Five: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel areas to grasp... promptly
cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting firms:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...
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