How cPanel Web Hosting Functions
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel Web Hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are generated by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a vast number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
200k "Web Hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The Web Hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just an average chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and websites. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any website hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 website hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names around the world will give you literally the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on today's web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based Web Hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably covered all web hosting market demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Inconvenience No.1: A moronic domain folder arrangement
If you have two or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 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 disorientated? We certainly are!
Negative Side Number 2: The very same mail folder system
The mail folder structure on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irreparably.
Weakness Number 3: An entire lack of domain name manipulation GUIs
Do we need to point out the thorough deficiency of a modern domain management menu - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a mammoth predicament. An unforgettable one, we want to add...
Weakness Number 4: Many login locations (min 2, maximum 3)
How about the need for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management software? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based Web Hosting company. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing platform (particularly created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel Web Hosting firm is using, the keen customers can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support software solution), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Drawback Number Five: 120+ website hosting CP areas to become acquainted with... rapidly
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, 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...
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