How Does cPanel Web Hosting Work?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on the current website hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly 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 website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace supply the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The Web Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are only a regular bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands in the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the current website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps covered most web hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Inconvenience Number One: A stupid domain name folder setup
If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain 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 growing disorientated? We categorically are!
Negative Side Number Two: The very same email folder setup
The mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly reinforce their faith in God when managing the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to muck things up too fatally.
Weak Point No.3: A total absence of domain management sections
Do we have to point out the sheer lack of a modern domain administration GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" tool at all. That's a major downside. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...
Negative Aspect No.4: Many user login locations (min two, max three)
How about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the billing, domain and technical support management platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Web Hosting provider. At times, on the basis of the billing platform (particularly created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting distributor is utilizing, the avid customers can end up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Weak Point Number Five: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel sections to become familiar with... briskly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting firms:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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