How Does cPanel Website Hosting Operate?
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which provides a great number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace offer one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an average bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 website hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names around the world will offer you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps met all web hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weakness Number 1: An idiotic domain folder arrangement
If you have two or more domains, though, be very careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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 growing disorientated? We doubtlessly are!
Weak Side No.2: The same mail folder arrangement
The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too severely.
Inconvenience No.3: A complete shortage of domain name management user interfaces
Do we need to cite the complete shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" interface at all. That's a considerable downside. An unforgivable one, we want to add...
Downside No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)
What about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management user interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Website Hosting supplier. Occasionally, depending on the invoice transaction platform (particularly built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting service provider is making use of, the zealous customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Drawback Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP areas to learn... swiftly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
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