How does cpanel-based site hosting work?
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the current site hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire hosting market offer absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are identical. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "web space hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The site hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a regular chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique site hosting brands all over the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the contemporary site hosting market is... Period.
The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a big stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly satisfied most web site hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Aspect No.1: A dumb domain folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder setup is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)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 growing baffled? We categorically are!
Negative Point No.2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement
The email folder arrangement on the server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when handling the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to fuck things up too irretrievably.
Weakness No.3: A total deficiency of domain manipulation tools
Do we have to refer to the entire absence of a modern domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" interface at all. That's a considerable disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...
Negative Side No.4: Numerous login locations (min two, max 3)
How about the demand for another login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and tech support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based webspace hosting company. Sometimes, depending on the billing platform (especially intended for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the keen users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain name management section; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Weak Point Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel departments to become acquainted with... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting distributors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...