How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel hosting offers on the current website hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized business niche, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing exactly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offers on the whole site hosting marketplace supply one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/website hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "web site hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an average bloke who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting option you can select? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 site hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique hosting brands all over the world will give you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the assortment on today's website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied most web space hosting industry requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weakness Number One: A dumb domain folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely watchful not to remove completely 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 very simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated 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. Check for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name 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)
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)
Are you becoming confused? We positively are!
Disadvantage Number 2: The same mail folder configuration
The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too fatally.
Weak Side Number 3: An absolute lack of domain management interfaces
Do we have to cite the entire absence of a modern domain name management GUI - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" section at all. That's an enormous problem. An unpardonable one, we want to add...
Problem Number Four: Many login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)
What about the necessity for another login to use the billing transaction, domain and tech support management tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting supplier. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction platform (especially meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the devoted customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management software solution; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).
Problem No.5: 120+ web space hosting Control Panel sections to get familiar with... swiftly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a remarkable idea to pick up each of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web site hosting firms:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...