How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offers on the current web page hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offers on the whole web page hosting market furnish the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/hosting CP choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...
200,000 "hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The web space hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a regular chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site making processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k web hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brands worldwide will offer you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present web hosting market is... Period.
The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The pros and cons of the cPanel website hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps answered all web page hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Side Number 1: A moronic domain folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name 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)
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 name)
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 name)
Are you becoming perplexed? We undeniably are!
Weak Side Number 2: The very same mail folder configuration
The email folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to fuck things up too severely.
Shortcoming Number 3: A total deficiency of domain name management sections
Do we need to cite the complete deficiency of a modern domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an enormous predicament. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...
Inconvenience Number Four: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)
What about the need for an extra login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web hosting service provider. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction platform (principally created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the earnest clients can end up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Drawback Number Five: 120+ web space hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... fast
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the website hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting vendors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...