How cPanel Hosting Operates
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes a great amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing the very same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200,000 "Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are just a normal guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 website hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names all over the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the current website hosting market is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably answered most hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Point Number 1: A laughable domain folder structure
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra careful not to delete fully 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 quite simple to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 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 getting perplexed? We undeniably are!
Negative Aspect No.2: The same e-mail folder setup
The email folder arrangement on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly reinforce their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.
Shortcoming Number Three: An absolute shortage of domain name administration interfaces
Do we need to cite the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a vast problem. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...
Problem No.4: Multiple user login places (min two, max three)
How about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the invoicing system (especially intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel Hosting distributor is utilizing, the ardent users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).
Shortcoming Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to get familiar with... promptly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better grasp them quickly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting companies:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...
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