How cPanel Web Hosting Works
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offers on the current hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which furnishes a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing absolutely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire web hosting market offer strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "Web Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The Web Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and websites. Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting option you can select? Of course there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different website hosting brands worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps covered all web hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Problem Number 1: An idiotic domain folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain 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)
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 undeniably are!
Disadvantage Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly increase their belief in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too harshly.
Negative Sign No.3: A complete lack of domain manipulation tools
Do we have to mention the total absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an immense weakness. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...
Disadvantage No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max three)
What about the demand for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain and tech support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Web Hosting company. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction tool (especially made for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting corporation is utilizing, the avid clients can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration user interface; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Weakness Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... rapidly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting service providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...
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