How Does cPanel Hosting Work?
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based Hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which supplies a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
200k "Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed
The Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a normal guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the contemporary website hosting market is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered all website hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Drawback Number 1: A stupid domain name folder system
If you have two or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the hosting server, since 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 located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 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)
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 name)
Are you becoming baffled? We undeniably are!
Negative Aspect No.2: The same e-mail folder structure
The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly enhance their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too badly.
Negative Point No.3: An absolute absence of domain name manipulation user interfaces
Do we have to refer to the sheer shortage of a modern domain manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...
Weak Point Number 4: Many user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)
How about the need for an extra login to access the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (particularly invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting company is utilizing, the zealous clients can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Predicament Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to learn... quickly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting distributors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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