How cPanel Website Hosting Functions
For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel Website Hosting offerings on the current hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which generates a vast number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering exactly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market provide one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/CP alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...
200k "Website Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The Website Hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied all web hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Point Number One: A foolish domain folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name 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)
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 growing bewildered? We doubtlessly are!
Negative Point Number 2: The same email folder system
The e-mail folder structure on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly enhance their faith in God when handling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too seriously.
Negative Aspect No.3: An absolute lack of domain name management tools
Do we have to cite the entire absence of a modern domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a major inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we want to add...
Negative Aspect Number 4: Multiple login places (min two, maximum 3)
What about the necessity for another login to use the billing, domain name and tech support management system? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel Website Hosting firm. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction system (particularly created for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting distributor is making use of, the eager customers can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Problem Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel menus to become familiar with... fast
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them briskly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting companies:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
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