How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale business niche, which generates a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace provide literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...
200,000 "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The web hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web space hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brands worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present web site hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel site hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied all web hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Shortcoming No.1: An idiotic domain folder arrangement
If you have two or more domains, however, be very watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name 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)
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 getting confused? We undeniably are!
Negative Aspect No.2: The very same email folder configuration
The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly fortify their faith in God when handling the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too severely.
Negative Point Number Three: An entire absence of domain management user interfaces
Do we need to bring up the absolute absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" tool at all. That's a colossal downside. An unpardonable one, we want to add...
Negative Side No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for an extra login to use the invoicing, domain and tech support management software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting provider. Now and then, depending on the billing platform (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the avid clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain name management tool; 2: the ticket support software solution), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Downside No.5: 120+ site hosting CP sections to memorize... swiftly
cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 menus inside the Control Panel. It's a fine idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them fast... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting suppliers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...