How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small business segment, which furnishes a huge quantity of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market furnish exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The web site hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply an ordinary person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k website hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names worldwide will offer you exactly the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting company is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel web space hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled most webspace hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Drawback No.1: A dumb domain name folder setup
If you have two or more domains, however, be extra cautious not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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 try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 name)
Are you becoming disorientated? We certainly are!
Disadvantage No.2: The very same email folder configuration
The e-mail folder structure on the server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly reinforce their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too severely.
Predicament Number 3: A total deficiency of domain name management menus
Do we need to bring up the thorough deficiency of a contemporary domain name management platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a major predicament. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...
Weak Point Number 4: Many login places (min 2, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for another login to use the billing, domain and technical support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web site hosting provider. Occasionally, based on the invoice transaction tool (particularly conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the enthusiastic clients can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Point Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel sections to get familiar with... quickly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting service providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...