How Does cPanel Web Hosting Operate?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small marketing niche, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a regular chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands around the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on today's website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly covered most hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Point Number One: An idiotic domain folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are created 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 located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder structure 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 confused? We categorically are!
Downside Number 2: The very same email folder setup
The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the email folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too severely.
Drawback Number Three: An utter absence of domain name manipulation menus
Do we need to bring up the thorough shortage of a modern domain name manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" menu at all. That's an immense predicament. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...
Downside Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum two, max three)
How about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain and tech support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Web Hosting distributor. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (especially intended for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting vendor is utilizing, the devoted customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).
Weak Side No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to get to know... swiftly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a fine idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting firms:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...
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