Explanation of cPanel Web Hosting
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on the present-day web hosting market are supplied by a very insignificant marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web hosting marketplace supply the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
200,000 "Web Hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a normal bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and online portals. Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the current web hosting market is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTO we are all participating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably answered all web hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Predicament Number One: A stupid domain folder system
If you have two or more domains, however, be extra careful not to remove completely 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 domain names are quite easy to erase on the web 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 name is a folder situated 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. Check for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder configuration is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)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)
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 confused? We certainly are!
Weak Point No.2: The same email folder configuration
The e-mail folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly enhance their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to mess things up too gravely.
Predicament Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain manipulation sections
Do we have to mention the sheer absence of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...
Problem Number Four: Numerous user login places (min two, maximum three)
How about the demand for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration user interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Web Hosting supplier. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (especially made for cPanel solely) the cPanel Web Hosting corporation is utilizing, the keen users can end up with two extra login locations (1: the billing/domain administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).
Predicament Number 5: More than 120 web hosting CP areas to memorize... promptly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them rapidly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Web Hosting companies:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...
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