How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offers on the present webspace hosting market are furnished by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market offer the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...
200k "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The web space hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web space hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site making procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 site hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique webspace hosting brands around the world will offer you the very same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably answered most web page hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Problem No.1: A foolish domain name folder setup
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 remove on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, 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. Check for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)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 undoubtedly are!
Negative Side No.2: The same e-mail folder system
The e-mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too badly.
Predicament Number Three: A thorough lack of domain name management sections
Do we need to point out the entire lack of a modern domain administration GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an immense inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...
Negative Aspect Number 4: Multiple login locations (min two, maximum 3)
What about the demand for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting firm. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (particularly invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the earnest users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Weak Point Number Five: 120+ web hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... quickly
cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting suppliers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...