How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the current web page hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet providing exactly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market furnish exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand site hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
200k "website hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The web page hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a normal guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web page hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brand names across the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple math demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel webspace hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered most hosting business requirements. 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 Number One: A ludicrous domain folder system
If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder setup 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 name)
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)
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 becoming confused? We absolutely are!
Weak Point Number Two: The same e-mail folder configuration
The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly fortify their faith in God when handling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too severely.
Negative Aspect Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain name management sections
Do we need to refer to the total lack of a modern domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" interface at all. That's a mammoth inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...
Downside Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum two, maximum 3)
What about the need for another login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and technical support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting company. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction tool (especially meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the avid clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Side No.5: More than 120 CP departments to get familiar with... briskly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting firms:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...