How Does cPanel Web Hosting Function?
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel Web Hosting offers on the current web hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace furnish one and the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a normal chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k web hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names around the world will offer you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met all website hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Point Number One: A foolish domain name folder configuration
If you have two or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how wonderful 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 name)
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 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 growing disorientated? We undoubtedly are!
Predicament Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder setup
The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.
Weak Point Number Three: An utter lack of domain name administration menus
Do we need to point out the utter deficiency of a modern domain manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" section at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...
Drawback Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)
What about the demand for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Web Hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the billing platform (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting firm is making use of, the eager clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Predicament No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... promptly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the CP. It's a glorious idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web 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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