How does cpanel-based web hosting function?
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on today's webspace hosting marketplace are generated by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing strictly the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offers on the entire web space hosting marketplace offer the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are similar. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...
200,000 "web page hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The webspace hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different webspace hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply an average fellow who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web space hosting brands in the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel CP and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the current web site hosting market is... Period.
The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly answered most hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Aspect No.1: A laughable domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domains, though, be extra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 remove on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 domain names, please. See for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 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)
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 puzzled? We undoubtedly are!
Drawback No.2: The same email folder structure
The mail folder arrangement on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes firmly strengthen their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irreparably.
Downside Number Three: A sheer lack of domain administration menus
Do we need to cite the absolute lack of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an immense downside. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...
Predicament Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum 2, max three)
What about the need for another login to make use of the invoicing, domain and technical support administration tool? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting firm. At times, on the basis of the billing tool (principally invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the eager clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to pick up... quickly
cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting service providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...