How cPanel Web Hosting Works
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel Web Hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200k "Web Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
The Web Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brands all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present web hosting market is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied most hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Predicament Number 1: A moronic domain folder structure
If you have two or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 erase on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how great 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 name)
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 nonplussed? We categorically are!
Negative Side Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder system
The email folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too fatally.
Downside Number 3: An utter lack of domain name manipulation GUIs
Do we need to bring up the utter deficiency of a modern domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a gigantic problem. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...
Negative Side Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum 2, max three)
What about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration system? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Web Hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing platform (especially devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting vendor is making use of, the devoted clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).
Inconvenience Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to become familiar with... promptly
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting firms:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...
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