How cPanel Hosting Works
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are supplied by a very insignificant marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace supply one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an ordinary chap who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k web hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly covered all website hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Side Number One: A dumb domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how amazing 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 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)
Are you becoming puzzled? We absolutely are!
Negative Point Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder system
The mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.
Weakness Number 3: A thorough absence of domain manipulation interfaces
Do we have to cite the utter absence of a modern domain name administration GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a great disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...
Negative Sign Number Four: Many login locations (min 2, max three)
How about the need for an additional login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Hosting provider. At times, on the basis of the invoicing system (especially devised for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting firm is using, the devoted customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management section; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Side Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel areas to get to know... promptly
cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting vendors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...
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