How cPanel Hosting Functions
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel-based Hosting offers on the present-day website hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which supplies a big amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering the very same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel Hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200k "Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the site making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands across the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the current hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably answered all web hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Point Number One: A stupid domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the server, because they all are created 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder system is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)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 name)
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 becoming perplexed? We definitely are!
Shortcoming Number Two: The same mail folder system
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly enhance their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.
Negative Point Number 3: An utter absence of domain administration tools
Do we have to mention the absolute absence of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a vast weakness. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...
Drawback No.4: Numerous login places (min 2, maximum 3)
What about the need for another login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based Hosting firm. At times, based on the billing transaction tool (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel Hosting company is utilizing, the earnest clients can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Point Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel areas to memorize... briskly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a great idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting suppliers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...
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