How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the present webspace hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-sized marketing niche, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing absolutely the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole website hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/hosting CP option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
200k "web space hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are merely an average person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present-day web page hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably satisfied most web site hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Shortcoming No.1: A foolish domain name folder arrangement
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous 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 remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain 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)
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 disorientated? We categorically are!
Predicament No.2: The same e-mail folder configuration
The mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too fatally.
Negative Sign Number 3: A sheer shortage of domain name management options
Do we need to point out the total lack of a modern domain administration user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois details, shield the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" section at all. That's an enormous downside. An unpardonable one, we want to add...
Negative Sign Number Four: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max three)
What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management software? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting distributor. At times, based on the invoicing transaction tool (especially developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the avid customers can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management system; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).
Inconvenience Number Five: 120+ website hosting CP areas to become acquainted with... quickly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...