How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on the present web site hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small business niche, which furnishes a huge number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offerings on the whole hosting marketplace provide exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/CP alternative. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The web page hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a regular chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brand names in the world will give you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.
The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably met all web site hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Point Number One: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extra attentive not to delete 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 simple to remove on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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 growing confused? We surely are!
Problem Number 2: The very same mail folder structure
The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly increase their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too seriously.
Negative Aspect Number 3: A thorough absence of domain name administration options
Do we need to point out the absolute lack of a modern domain management platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" menu at all. That's a colossal inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...
Disadvantage Number Four: Numerous login places (min two, max 3)
What about the demand for another login to use the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based website hosting service provider. At times, depending on the invoicing platform (principally meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the earnest customers can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).
Weak Side Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting CP menus to get acquainted with... fast
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting companies:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...