cPanel Web Hosting Explained
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small business segment, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market supply exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting price tags are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...
200k "Web Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met all web hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Drawback Number One: A moronic domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain 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)
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 name)
Are you getting disorientated? We unquestionably are!
Weak Point Number 2: The same electronic mail folder setup
The email folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too harshly.
Predicament Number Three: A total shortage of domain name administration GUIs
Do we need to refer to the absolute absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" section at all. That's a vast disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...
Weak Side Number 4: Multiple login locations (min two, max three)
What about the demand for an additional login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Web Hosting vendor. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (principally invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting provider is using, the keen users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration platform; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Shortcoming Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty Control Panel departments to grasp... quickly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting suppliers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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