How Does cPanel Hosting Operate?
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel Hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market furnish precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200k "Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an average guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 website hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands across the world will give you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present-day website hosting market is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably covered all website hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Drawback Number 1: A laughable domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
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 undoubtedly are!
Disadvantage Number 2: The very same mail folder arrangement
The email folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly increase their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too severely.
Shortcoming No.3: A thorough shortage of domain name manipulation sections
Do we need to bring up the thorough lack of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a major predicament. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...
Shortcoming No.4: Many user login locations (min two, maximum three)
What about the necessity for another login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel Hosting vendor. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction system (especially built for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting vendor is availing of, the avid clients can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration interface; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Drawback No.5: More than 120 web hosting CP areas to grasp... fast
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them promptly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
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