How cPanel Website Hosting Operates
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are generated by a very insignificant business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business segment, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole hosting market offer absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...
200,000 "Website Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary chap who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brand names all over the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present website hosting market is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel Website Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably met all website hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Inconvenience Number One: A ludicrous domain folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the server, since 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 placed 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. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 growing nonplussed? We unquestionably are!
Drawback No.2: The same email folder arrangement
The email folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too severely.
Weak Side Number 3: A thorough deficiency of domain administration menus
Do we have to bring up the utter lack of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a vast shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...
Problem Number Four: Numerous login places (min two, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain and technical support administration GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Website Hosting company. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction system (principally tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting provider is utilizing, the earnest clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain management software; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Point Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to get acquainted with... promptly
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Website Hosting suppliers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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