How does cpanel-based web hosting work?
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on today's webspace hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small marketing segment, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the site hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market supply one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
200,000 "site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded
The site hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a regular bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any website hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web space hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different webspace hosting brand names in the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel CP and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present webspace hosting market is... Full stop.
The site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web site hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably answered most web space hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Disadvantage No.1: A foolish domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder system 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)
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 name)
Are you becoming disorientated? We clearly are!
Negative Point No.2: The same mail folder setup
The email folder structure on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly strengthen their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too harshly.
Downside Number 3: An entire deficiency of domain manipulation sections
Do we need to mention the complete lack of a modern domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a mammoth drawback. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...
Negative Aspect Number 4: Numerous login places (min 2, max three)
How about the demand for another login to access the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based site hosting firm. Now and then, depending on the invoicing tool (principally intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the zealous clients can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Point No.5: More than 120 web space hosting CP menus to learn... swiftly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting firms:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...