How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the present site hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which supplies an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing exactly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting market supply the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...
200k "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The web site hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just a normal fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different website hosting brands around the world will give you strictly the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the current web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel webspace hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled most site hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weakness No.1: A moronic domain name folder setup
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 becoming disorientated? We undoubtedly are!
Predicament Number Two: The very same email folder configuration
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too harshly.
Predicament Number 3: A sheer absence of domain administration GUIs
Do we need to refer to the absolute lack of a modern domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a considerable inconvenience. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...
Downside Number Four: Many login locations (min 2, max three)
What about the need for another login to avail of the invoicing, domain and tech support management tool? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web site hosting supplier. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing tool (especially meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the avid customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration platform; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).
Weakness No.5: More than one hundred and twenty CP areas to get acquainted with... rapidly
cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 sections inside the website hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them briskly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...