How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on today's web site hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the website hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting marketplace supply strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/web space hosting CP option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200,000 "web space hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The web site hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only an average guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any web site hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k web page hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique site hosting brands worldwide will offer you exactly the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present-day site hosting market is... Period.
The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel site hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps answered all site hosting business preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Downside Number 1: An imbecilic domain folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 confused? We doubtlessly are!
Weak Point Number 2: The same electronic mail folder setup
The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly increase their belief in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to muck things up too fatally.
Negative Sign Number 3: An utter absence of domain name manipulation menus
Do we have to refer to the thorough shortage of a modern domain administration interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" interface at all. That's a big shortcoming. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...
Weak Side No.4: Multiple login places (minimum two, max three)
How about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the invoicing, domain name and tech support administration GUI? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web site hosting company. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing platform (principally tailored for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the avid customers can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).
Negative Aspect No.5: More than 120 web space hosting CP areas to get to know... quickly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting companies:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...