How Does cPanel Website Hosting Operate?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing segment, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting market furnish strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
The Website Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a regular fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands around the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the current website hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably fulfilled all website hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Problem No.1: An idiotic domain name folder setup
If you have two or more domains, however, be extra watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the web server, since they all are set up 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 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)
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 baffled? We positively are!
Weak Point Number 2: The same e-mail folder setup
The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly increase their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.
Disadvantage No.3: An absolute lack of domain name management GUIs
Do we need to cite the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" tool at all. That's a huge downside. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...
Inconvenience Number 4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)
What about the need for another login to access the billing, domain and technical support management software solution? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Website Hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction platform (especially meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting firm is using, the ardent customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Point Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to get to know... fast
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...
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