How does cpanel-based website hosting work?
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel site hosting offers on the contemporary hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the entire hosting market furnish literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...
200k "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded
The web hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an average bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting option you can select? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web space hosting suppliers out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names worldwide will give you the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on today's hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages 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 probably answered most web hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Point Number One: A laughable domain folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new 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 remove on the server, because they all are placed 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine 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)
Are you getting baffled? We absolutely are!
Drawback Number 2: The very same email folder structure
The mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly increase their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to bungle things up too gravely.
Drawback Number 3: A sheer absence of domain name administration tools
Do we need to refer to the utter lack of a modern domain administration user interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a colossal shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...
Shortcoming No.4: Many login locations (min two, max 3)
What about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting supplier. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (particularly meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the earnest customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management menu; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).
Negative Sign Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel areas to grasp... rapidly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting suppliers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...