How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the present-day web site hosting market are supplied by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing precisely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market furnish strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
200k "site hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed
The web page hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only a regular person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique site hosting brand names worldwide will give you precisely the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.
The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel site hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably covered all hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Side No.1: A laughable domain folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are set up 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 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. Observe for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 name)
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 name)
Are you growing puzzled? We doubtlessly are!
Shortcoming Number 2: The very same email folder system
The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums strongly reinforce their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irretrievably.
Disadvantage No.3: A sheer absence of domain name manipulation sections
Do we need to cite the total absence of a contemporary domain name manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a considerable weakness. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...
Predicament Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)
How about the demand for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration menu? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based site hosting distributor. Now and then, based on the billing transaction platform (particularly tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the ardent clients can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain name management system; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Inconvenience Number 5: More than 120 web space hosting CP departments to memorize... quickly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the site hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting service providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...