How Does cPanel Web Hosting Function?
For your info, it’s useful to know that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market supply absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There’s no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one…
200k “Web Hosting vendors”, all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The Web Hosting “variety” and the web hosting “offers” Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100’s of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an average fellow who’s not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web sites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can select? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here’s where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names around the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That’s how big the variety on the current website hosting market is… Full stop.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in 50…
The positive and negative points of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let’s not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly met all website hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names…
Weakness Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that’s how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how amazing 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 becoming puzzled? We positively are!
Predicament Number Two: The same e-mail folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains… Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their belief in God when handling the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too harshly.
Weakness Number 3: A thorough shortage of domain name management interfaces
Do we need to bring up the complete absence of a modern domain manipulation interface – a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names’ Whois information, protect the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a “contemporary” user interface at all. That’s a vast downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out…
Inconvenience Number Four: Many login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)
How about the need for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management interface? That’s aside from the cPanel login credentials you’ve been already provided by the cPanel Web Hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the billing tool (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting company is making use of, the ardent customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management interface; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of 3 login places (including cPanel).
Predicament No.5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel menus to get familiar with… quickly
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It’s a great idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you’d better get familiar with them promptly… That’s quite insolent on cPanel’s side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting providers:
As far as we are informed, it’s not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well…
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