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How cPanel Hosting Operates
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on the present website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace supply one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The web hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are only a normal person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly answered all website hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Aspect Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder arrangement
If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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 puzzled? We certainly are!
Inconvenience Number Two: The same email folder configuration
The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too harshly.
Negative Aspect Number 3: A thorough shortage of domain name administration menus
Do we need to bring up the absolute absence of a modern domain name administration GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" menu at all. That's a big predicament. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...
Weak Side Number Four: Many user login places (min two, maximum three)
How about the necessity for an extra login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management menu? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting service provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the eager clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Inconvenience No.5: More than 120 hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... rapidly
cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting corporations:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...