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 present web hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which provides a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing literally the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace supply one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a regular guy who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web pages. Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web hosting brand names around the world will give you strictly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably answered most hosting business requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Problem No.1: A stupid domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 perplexed? We categorically are!
Negative Side Number 2: The very same mail folder configuration
The e-mail folder structure on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly increase their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.
Shortcoming Number 3: An utter shortage of domain name administration menus
Do we have to refer to the sheer lack of a contemporary domain management interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a gigantic drawback. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...
Predicament Number Four: Numerous login locations (minimum two, max 3)
What about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Web Hosting vendor. Occasionally, based on the invoicing transaction platform (principally invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting provider is using, the zealous users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management interface; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel sections to learn... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting service providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...
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