How cPanel Web Hosting Works
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which provides a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market supply absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a regular fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brand names worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably satisfied most web hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Inconvenience Number 1: A stupid domain name folder system
If you have two or more domain names, though, be very careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 name)
Are you becoming perplexed? We doubtlessly are!
Weakness No.2: The same mail folder system
The e-mail folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly increase their belief in God when managing the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too severely.
Shortcoming Number 3: A total lack of domain management GUIs
Do we have to mention the thorough deficiency of a modern domain administration platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a colossal shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...
Drawback No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, max three)
How about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting vendor. At times, depending on the invoicing platform (principally conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting company is availing of, the eager clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain management section; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).
Weak Point Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP menus to get to know... swiftly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting vendors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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