How Does cPanel Hosting Operate?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting marketplace are provided by a very insignificant business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which generates an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace provide the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/CP option. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200k "Hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the different domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names around the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on today's web hosting market is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied all website hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Side Number 1: A dumb domain name folder configuration
If you have two or more domain names, however, be extremely watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)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 nonplussed? We definitely are!
Inconvenience No.2: The same mail folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.
Negative Side Number 3: An utter shortage of domain administration GUIs
Do we have to mention the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an enormous problem. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...
Downside Number 4: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, max 3)
How about the demand for another login to avail of the billing, domain and tech support management interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Hosting distributor. At times, on the basis of the billing platform (principally created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting corporation is making use of, the earnest users can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Predicament Number Five: 120+ Control Panel sections to pick up... promptly
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 areas inside the hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting vendors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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