How does cpanel-based website hosting function?
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the current web hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market provide absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are similar. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The site hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can opt for? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k site hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web space hosting brand names in the world will give you the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on today's site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple math shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web page hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably met all web page hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Point Number One: A stupid domain name folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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 name)
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 growing perplexed? We unquestionably are!
Negative Sign No.2: The same email folder configuration
The e-mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too seriously.
Inconvenience Number 3: A sheer lack of domain name administration GUIs
Do we need to bring up the absolute absence of a modern domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a great inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...
Predicament Number Four: Many login places (min 2, max 3)
How about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and tech support management GUI? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web page hosting vendor. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction platform (particularly designed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the zealous clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management platform; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).
Predicament Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel sections to get to know... promptly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the web page hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's excessively insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...