How does cpanel-based hosting operate?
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web space hosting offerings on the present-day website hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which generates an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market supply exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/web hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The web site hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brands worldwide will give you absolutely the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the contemporary hosting market is... Period.
The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple math demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly answered all web site hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Point Number 1: An idiotic domain folder arrangement
If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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)
Are you becoming perplexed? We categorically are!
Weak Side Number Two: The same mail folder structure
The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly fortify their belief in God when handling the email folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too harshly.
Negative Point Number Three: An entire absence of domain administration sections
Do we need to point out the complete absence of a modern domain management platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a major problem. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...
Disadvantage Number 4: Multiple login places (min 2, max 3)
What about the demand for another login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting corporation. Occasionally, based on the billing transaction platform (especially made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the avid clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).
Disadvantage Number Five: 120+ site hosting CP sections to get familiar with... quickly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ sections inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a superb idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting suppliers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...