How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the present webspace hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the webspace hosting offers on the entire hosting marketplace offer strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
200,000 "website hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The webspace hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are just a regular guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting option you can select? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brands worldwide will offer you the same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel web site hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied all web page hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Side No.1: A dumb domain folder system
If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent 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 server, because they all are situated 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder setup is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)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)
Are you getting baffled? We definitely are!
Shortcoming No.2: The very same mail folder system
The electronic mail folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.
Inconvenience No.3: A sheer shortage of domain name administration menus
Do we have to refer to the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois information, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a vast shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...
Predicament No.4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)
What about the need for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support administration platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web site hosting vendor. At times, depending on the invoicing tool (principally meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the devoted customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support software solution), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Sign No.5: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel areas to pick up... quickly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the Control Panel. It's a fine idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting companies:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...