How Does cPanel Hosting Function?
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based Hosting offerings on the present website hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size business niche, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole web hosting market supply the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...
200k "Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web portals. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique website hosting brand names in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The pros and cons of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps fulfilled all web hosting business preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Aspect Number One: A moronic domain name folder system
If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how great 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 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)
Are you getting baffled? We unquestionably are!
Negative Point No.2: The same electronic mail folder setup
The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.
Predicament No.3: An absolute shortage of domain name administration menus
Do we have to refer to the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a vast downside. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...
Predicament Number 4: Many user login locations (min two, maximum 3)
What about the necessity for another login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the billing system (especially made for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting supplier is availing of, the eager users can wind up with two extra logins (1: the billing/domain name administration system; 2: the ticket support platform), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).
Negative Aspect No.5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel areas to grasp... promptly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Hosting suppliers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...
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