How Does cPanel Website Hosting Function?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on the current web hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized business segment, which furnishes an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market offer literally the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The Website Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands 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 making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k web hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brand names all over the world will give you precisely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on today's hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly met all website hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Side No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder system
If you have two or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder structure is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)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 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 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 name)
Are you becoming baffled? We clearly are!
Inconvenience No.2: The very same mail folder setup
The mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly increase their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irreparably.
Predicament Number 3: A total shortage of domain administration GUIs
Do we need to refer to the thorough lack of a contemporary domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an enormous problem. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...
Problem No.4: Many user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)
What about the need for an extra login to use the billing, domain name and technical support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Website Hosting distributor. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing tool (especially made for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting firm is availing of, the zealous customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration platform; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Disadvantage Number 5: 120+ website hosting CP menus to get acquainted with... rapidly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting companies:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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