How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web hosting offers on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which supplies an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same thing: mostly 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 entire website hosting market furnish exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/webspace hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely labeled
The web space hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are merely a normal guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands around the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the current webspace hosting market is... Period.
The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered most web hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Inconvenience No.1: A moronic domain folder system
If you have two or more domains, though, be very cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous 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 attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Examine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 disorientated? We doubtlessly are!
Negative Point Number 2: The same email folder structure
The email folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly reinforce their faith in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too badly.
Predicament No.3: A complete absence of domain name administration tools
Do we have to point out the total shortage of a contemporary domain name administration interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" section at all. That's a considerable problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...
Weakness Number 4: Multiple user login places (min two, maximum 3)
What about the need for another login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel website hosting corporation. At times, on the basis of the billing transaction tool (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the devoted users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Drawback Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... briskly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them swiftly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting suppliers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...