How cPanel Hosting Functions
For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based Hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-size business niche, which generates a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire website hosting market supply the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
200,000 "Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present-day website hosting market is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based Hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied most website hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Point Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder system
If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to erase completely 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 easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed 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. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
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 becoming puzzled? We unquestionably are!
Downside Number 2: The same electronic mail folder setup
The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly strengthen their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too fatally.
Problem Number 3: A total lack of domain management GUIs
Do we have to bring up the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain management platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" section at all. That's an enormous problem. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...
Downside No.4: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)
How about the demand for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain and technical support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Hosting vendor. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (especially conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting service provider is availing of, the ardent clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management software; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).
Weak Point Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... promptly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting service providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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