How does cpanel-based site hosting work?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on today's web hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small business segment, which generates a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the whole site hosting market offer one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/hosting CP option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...
200k "web space hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The web space hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k site hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different site hosting brands around the world will give you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web page hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably answered all website hosting industry prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Shortcoming Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder setup
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely watchful not to erase completely 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 very simple to remove on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 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 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 nonplussed? We undeniably are!
Weak Side Number 2: The same email folder system
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too irretrievably.
Weakness No.3: A thorough absence of domain name management sections
Do we need to bring up the total lack of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" section at all. That's a colossal predicament. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...
Disadvantage No.4: Numerous user login places (minimum two, maximum three)
How about the necessity for another login to use the billing, domain and tech support management platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web site hosting distributor. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing platform (particularly conceived for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the devoted customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration user interface; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Negative Sign Number Five: More than 120 hosting CP areas to get familiar with... promptly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the CP. It's a fabulous idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them swiftly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting distributors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...