How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the present web page hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which furnishes an enormous quantity of different web hosting brands, yet supplying the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire site hosting market offer one and the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200k website hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
200k "website hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The site hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a normal guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any site hosting option you can select? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200,000 website hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different webspace hosting brands worldwide will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present web page hosting marketplace is... Period.
The site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a great stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web site hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered all website hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Shortcoming No.1: An imbecilic domain folder system
If you have two or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the server, since they all are set up 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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 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)
Are you growing bewildered? We undeniably are!
Disadvantage Number 2: The very same e-mail folder arrangement
The email folder arrangement on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly fortify their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to screw things up too badly.
Weak Point No.3: A complete shortage of domain name administration options
Do we have to point out the total absence of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a mammoth predicament. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...
Problem Number Four: Numerous user login locations (min 2, max 3)
How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the invoicing, domain and tech support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web space hosting corporation. Sometimes, depending on the invoicing platform (especially made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is utilizing, the zealous customers can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).
Drawback Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting Control Panel areas to learn... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a great idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them fast... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting service providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...