How does cpanel-based web hosting function?
For your info, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on today's web space hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies an immense quantity of different web hosting brands, yet offering exactly the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting market offer one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web page hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The web page hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the web site making processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, at present there are more than 200,000 web space hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique site hosting brand names in the world will give you the very same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the current site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The website hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered all web space hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Drawback Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very attentive not to erase 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 domain names are very easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are created 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 becoming puzzled? We undeniably are!
Weak Side No.2: The same mail folder system
The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly increase their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too gravely.
Negative Sign No.3: An utter absence of domain name administration interfaces
Do we need to refer to the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois information, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" section at all. That's a big predicament. An unforgivable one, we want to add...
Negative Point Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum three)
What about the need for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting corporation. At times, depending on the invoice transaction system (particularly tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the enthusiastic users can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).
Predicament Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP menus to get to know... swiftly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the web site hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to learn each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting distributors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...