How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the present web site hosting market are provided by a very insignificant marketing niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which provides a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying strictly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the whole website hosting market offer literally the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/CP choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200k "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a normal chap who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web site hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different webspace hosting brand names around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps covered all web page hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Sign No.1: A ludicrous domain name folder system
If you have two or more domains, though, be extra careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to delete on the server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how good 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 name)
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 name)
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 name)
Are you growing confused? We categorically are!
Negative Aspect Number Two: The same e-mail folder system
The mail folder configuration on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly fortify their faith in God when managing the email folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too badly.
Shortcoming Number Three: A thorough lack of domain name administration sections
Do we need to cite the entire absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" interface at all. That's a colossal predicament. An inexcusable one, we want to add...
Predicament Number Four: Numerous user login places (minimum two, maximum three)
How about the demand for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain and technical support management interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting service provider. Occasionally, depending on the billing platform (particularly made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management platform; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Shortcoming No.5: More than 120 web site hosting Control Panel menus to get familiar with... briskly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the CP. It's a superb idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them briskly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting suppliers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...