How Does cPanel Website Hosting Function?
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the contemporary web hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market provide one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
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The web hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are just an ordinary person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web portals. Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any website hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different hosting brands worldwide will offer you precisely the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on today's web hosting market is... Full stop.
The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably covered most website hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Point Number One: A foolish domain folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 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 name)
Are you getting baffled? We doubtlessly are!
Problem No.2: The same email folder configuration
The mail folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly fortify their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too severely.
Negative Point Number 3: A thorough deficiency of domain management options
Do we have to cite the sheer absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" section at all. That's a huge drawback. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...
Predicament Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)
How about the need for another login to use the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting supplier. At times, based on the invoicing platform (especially devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the devoted users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoicing/domain administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Weakness Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel areas to grasp... quickly
cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting suppliers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...