How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offerings on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which furnishes an immense quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet offering literally the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole site hosting market supply one and the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...
200,000 "web page hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The web hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are just an ordinary person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200k web hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brands around the world will give you the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on today's webspace hosting market is... Full stop.
The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly answered most web space hosting business demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weakness No.1: A dumb domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra watchful not to remove 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to remove on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 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)
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 definitely are!
Shortcoming Number Two: The same email folder setup
The email folder arrangement on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly increase their faith in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too seriously.
Weakness No.3: A total deficiency of domain manipulation options
Do we need to mention the sheer shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" menu at all. That's an enormous shortcoming. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...
Drawback Number 4: Many login places (minimum two, max 3)
How about the necessity for another login to access the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration user interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web space hosting service provider. At times, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (particularly developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is using, the devoted users can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Weak Point Number Five: 120+ web page hosting Control Panel sections to get to know... briskly
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web space hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better pick them up promptly... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...