How does cpanel-based hosting work?
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offers on the present-day web page hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which provides an enormous quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market furnish precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/site hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "site hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The web page hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just a regular chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 web hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names in the world will give you the very same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present web site hosting market is... Period.
The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web site hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly fulfilled all web site hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Point No.1: A laughable domain name folder configuration
If you have two or more domains, though, be very careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder system 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 name)
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 growing disorientated? We categorically are!
Weak Side Number 2: The same email folder arrangement
The mail folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to fuck things up too severely.
Inconvenience Number Three: A complete lack of domain administration GUIs
Do we have to mention the total deficiency of a modern domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" tool at all. That's an immense downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...
Weakness Number Four: Multiple user login locations (min 2, maximum 3)
What about the need for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based site hosting distributor. Now and then, depending on the invoicing system (principally intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the keen customers can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the invoicing/domain management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support interface), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Predicament Number Five: More than 120 web page hosting CP areas to learn... quickly
cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...