How does cpanel-based web hosting function?
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offers on the present-day hosting market are provided by a very insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which generates a big number of different web hosting brands, yet offering one and the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting market provide one and the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/web page hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
200k "web page hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The web hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting brand names. Assume you are just a normal guy who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any site hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, right now there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different webspace hosting brand names around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, named differently, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied all web site hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Side Number 1: An idiotic domain folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely attentive not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder setup is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)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)
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 perplexed? We doubtlessly are!
Problem Number Two: The same e-mail folder system
The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly enhance their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too fatally.
Negative Side Number 3: An entire shortage of domain management GUIs
Do we have to mention the complete absence of a modern domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a vast inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...
Predicament Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)
What about the necessity for another login to access the billing, domain name and technical support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting corporation. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (particularly invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the earnest users can wind up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration system; 2: the ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).
Problem Number 5: 120+ web space hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 departments inside the Control Panel. It's a fine idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting companies:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...