How cPanel Website Hosting Operates
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel Website Hosting offers on the current web hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same services: 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 offerings on the whole website hosting market supply the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Website Hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a regular guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brand names across the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied all web hosting market requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Predicament Number One: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 very easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 bewildered? We positively are!
Negative Point Number 2: The very same e-mail folder structure
The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.
Inconvenience No.3: An absolute absence of domain administration sections
Do we have to cite the total lack of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a considerable drawback. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...
Predicament Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min two, max three)
What about the need for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Website Hosting provider. Occasionally, based on the invoicing tool (especially created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Website Hosting service provider is making use of, the ardent customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).
Downside Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... briskly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting distributors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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