How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the contemporary hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a great number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting market offer the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other hosting platform/hosting CP option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "web site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The webspace hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an average guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web space hosting brands around the world will give you literally the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on today's web site hosting market is... Full stop.
The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based website hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied all site hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Aspect Number 1: An idiotic domain folder configuration
If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent 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 server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how marvelous 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)
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)
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 baffled? We absolutely are!
Negative Aspect Number 2: The same e-mail folder structure
The email folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly strengthen their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too severely.
Weakness Number 3: A total absence of domain name manipulation options
Do we need to point out the utter shortage of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an enormous problem. An unpardonable one, we want to add...
Weakness Number Four: Numerous user login places (min two, max three)
How about the demand for another login to use the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration software? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting corporation. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction system (particularly intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the avid clients can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Inconvenience No.5: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel menus to become familiar with... rapidly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the web page hosting CP. It's a fine idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting companies:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...