How Does cPanel Website Hosting Work?
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based Website Hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting marketplace furnish one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "Website Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are only a normal person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web pages. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 website hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel CP and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the contemporary website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably met most hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Downside Number One: A stupid domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be very watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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)
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 puzzled? We doubtlessly are!
Negative Aspect No.2: The same email folder arrangement
The email folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too harshly.
Weak Point Number 3: An utter absence of domain name administration menus
Do we have to point out the utter shortage of a modern domain name manipulation menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a great shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...
Weak Point No.4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration system? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Website Hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (particularly built for cPanel solely) the cPanel Website Hosting corporation is utilizing, the eager customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Downside Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... fast
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the Control Panel. It's a fine idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting corporations:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
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