How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on today's site hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offers on the whole website hosting market supply literally the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...
200,000 "web page hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web space hosting brand names around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web space hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably fulfilled most hosting business demands. In short, 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 laughable domain folder structure
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder setup is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)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)
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 positively are!
Inconvenience Number Two: The same e-mail folder arrangement
The email folder structure on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too harshly.
Shortcoming No.3: A total absence of domain administration interfaces
Do we have to bring up the thorough deficiency of a modern domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" menu at all. That's a major disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...
Negative Sign Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max three)
What about the demand for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the billing system (especially devised for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is utilizing, the keen customers can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).
Downside No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP departments to memorize... rapidly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web site hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting service providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...