How cPanel Website Hosting Functions
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel Website Hosting offerings on the current web hosting market are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting market offer exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel Website Hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...
200k "Website Hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The Website Hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a normal person who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting option you can select? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brands in the world will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Website Hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based Website Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered all web hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Side Number One: An idiotic domain folder system
If you have two or more domains, however, be very watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Check for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)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)
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 bewildered? We categorically are!
Shortcoming Number Two: The very same e-mail folder configuration
The e-mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly increase their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irretrievably.
Downside Number Three: A thorough lack of domain administration sections
Do we need to mention the utter lack of a modern domain name management interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a vast shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...
Drawback Number Four: Numerous user login places (min 2, max three)
How about the need for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain and tech support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Website Hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the invoicing platform (particularly created for cPanel only) the cPanel Website Hosting provider is making use of, the ardent customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Drawback Number Five: More than 120 website hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... swiftly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better get to know them fast... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel Website Hosting suppliers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...
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