How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the current webspace hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace supply literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
200,000 "web space hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The web site hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands in the world will offer you the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly satisfied all website hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Point Number One: A dumb domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very careful not to delete entirely 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 simple to erase on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)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 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 growing puzzled? We positively are!
Weak Side No.2: The same email folder setup
The mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too badly.
Negative Aspect Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain name administration sections
Do we need to bring up the complete absence of a modern domain name administration platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a major predicament. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...
Shortcoming Number Four: Many user login places (minimum two, max 3)
What about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web site hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction tool (principally intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the eager customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Disadvantage No.5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting CP menus to memorize... swiftly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the CP. It's an excellent idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them briskly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...