How does cpanel-based web hosting function?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offerings on the present site hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-sized business segment, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole web site hosting marketplace supply exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/web site hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200,000 "site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The web site hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely a normal guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web site hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names worldwide will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the contemporary hosting market is... Full stop.
The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web page hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied all web page hosting industry preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Point No.1: An idiotic domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domains, though, be extra watchful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the hosting server, since 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 situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder system is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)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)
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)
Are you growing nonplussed? We positively are!
Downside No.2: The same e-mail folder configuration
The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin guys strongly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, praying not to fuck things up too severely.
Negative Aspect Number Three: A total deficiency of domain name management menus
Do we need to refer to the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain management menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...
Predicament No.4: Multiple user login locations (min two, maximum three)
What about the need for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting supplier. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction platform (principally intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is using, the keen customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).
Downside Number 5: More than 120 web page hosting Control Panel departments to memorize... fast
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the CP. It's a wonderful idea to become acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them promptly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting firms:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...