How does cpanel-based site hosting work?
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire hosting market provide the very same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed
The website hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a regular guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any site hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different web space hosting brand names around the world will give you the very same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present-day web hosting market is... Period.
The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel web page hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly answered all web hosting industry demands. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Side No.1: An idiotic domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely cautious not to erase completely 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 delete on the web hosting server, since they all are placed 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 name)
Are you growing disorientated? We clearly are!
Weak Point No.2: The same mail folder arrangement
The mail folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly fortify their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.
Negative Side Number 3: An entire lack of domain manipulation GUIs
Do we have to cite the entire shortage of a contemporary domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a major downside. An unpardonable one, we want to add...
Weak Side Number Four: Many login places (min two, maximum three)
How about the need for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web site hosting supplier. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction system (especially meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the eager users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain management system; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Weakness No.5: More than 120 CP menus to pick up... fast
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up briskly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting companies:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...