How cPanel Hosting Works
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel Hosting offerings on the contemporary hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business niche, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market furnish exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The Hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on today's website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The pros and cons of the cPanel Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably answered all web hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Predicament Number 1: A stupid domain folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next 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 server, since 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 name is a folder situated 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. Check for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 name)
Are you getting nonplussed? We clearly are!
Downside Number Two: The same mail folder setup
The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too irreparably.
Negative Sign No.3: An utter shortage of domain manipulation GUIs
Do we need to refer to the sheer lack of a contemporary domain name management menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" interface at all. That's a considerable drawback. An inexcusable one, we want to add...
Weak Side Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min two, max three)
How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel Hosting service provider. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (especially designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Hosting corporation is utilizing, the earnest clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).
Inconvenience Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to become acquainted with... promptly
cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better get to know them swiftly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Hosting firms:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...
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