How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the contemporary hosting marketplace are furnished by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering exactly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98% of the webspace hosting offers on the entire web site hosting marketplace offer the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/webspace hosting CP option. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
200k "web space hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The website hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a regular chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site making processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any web space hosting option you can settle on? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web space hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web space hosting brand names around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present site hosting market is... Period.
The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably met all site hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Point Number One: A dumb domain folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extremely attentive not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)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)
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 becoming nonplussed? We positively are!
Disadvantage Number Two: The same e-mail folder system
The e-mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too badly.
Downside No.3: An entire shortage of domain name manipulation menus
Do we have to refer to the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a huge downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to point out...
Drawback No.4: Multiple user login places (min two, max three)
How about the need for another login to utilize the billing, domain and technical support management section? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web hosting service provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (principally built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the devoted users can end up with two additional login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration GUI; 2: the ticket support interface), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).
Problem Number Five: More than 120 site hosting CP departments to grasp... promptly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the web page hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...