How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the contemporary web space hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which provides an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting marketplace furnish the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/site hosting CP option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "site hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The website hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a regular bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting option you can select? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web space hosting brand names across the world will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present website hosting market is... Period.
The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly fulfilled most web space hosting business prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Drawback No.1: An imbecilic domain folder system
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain 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 getting puzzled? We positively are!
Weakness Number 2: The same e-mail folder setup
The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps strongly increase their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, praying not to fuck things up too gravely.
Predicament No.3: A sheer absence of domain name management options
Do we have to refer to the sheer lack of a contemporary domain manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" section at all. That's a major drawback. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...
Inconvenience Number 4: Multiple login locations (min two, maximum three)
What about the necessity for another login to access the billing transaction, domain and tech support management tool? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based webspace hosting service provider. Sometimes, based on the invoicing system (particularly devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the devoted users can end up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Aspect No.5: 120+ web page hosting Control Panel areas to become familiar with... swiftly
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the Control Panel. It's a fine idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting firms:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...