How does cpanel website hosting function?
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on today's webspace hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which generates a big number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the web site hosting offers on the entire website hosting market supply one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/CP option. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
200k "web page hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The web hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an average chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site development procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web space hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present web page hosting market is... Period.
The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The pros and cons of the cPanel website hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably fulfilled most hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Downside No.1: A laughable domain name folder setup
If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 becoming nonplussed? We unquestionably are!
Problem Number Two: The same mail folder configuration
The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly enhance their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too irreparably.
Inconvenience Number 3: A thorough shortage of domain name manipulation sections
Do we need to bring up the complete absence of a contemporary domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's an immense shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...
Weak Point Number Four: Many login places (min two, maximum three)
How about the need for an extra login to make use of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting corporation. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction system (principally designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the keen clients can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Weak Point No.5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP menus to pick up... quickly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a superb idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting firms:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...