How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on today's webspace hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing segment, which provides a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offers on the whole web page hosting marketplace furnish exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "web site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The website hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web page hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present-day site hosting market is... Period.
The hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel web hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably met all web site hosting industry demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Problem Number One: A stupid domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra careful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to delete on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder system 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 growing baffled? We definitely are!
Drawback No.2: The same mail folder structure
The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too irreparably.
Negative Side Number Three: An entire shortage of domain name manipulation interfaces
Do we need to bring up the entire shortage of a modern domain manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" menu at all. That's a considerable drawback. An unpardonable one, we wish to add...
Drawback Number Four: Numerous user login places (min two, maximum three)
What about the need for an extra login to access the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the billing platform (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the avid clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain name administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Downside Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty Control Panel sections to become acquainted with... briskly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...