How does cpanel-based website hosting function?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the present web hosting market are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web site hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the entire website hosting market provide strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mind that one...
200k "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The web space hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web page development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 site hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different webspace hosting brands around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the current site hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly met most web space hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Sign No.1: A foolish domain name folder setup
If you have two or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular 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. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 growing disorientated? We certainly are!
Predicament Number Two: The very same mail folder structure
The e-mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too seriously.
Shortcoming Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain manipulation user interfaces
Do we need to refer to the thorough deficiency of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a great predicament. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...
Inconvenience Number Four: Many login places (min two, max three)
How about the need for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain name and technical support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web page hosting supplier. At times, based on the invoicing platform (particularly tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is availing of, the avid clients can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login places (including cPanel).
Weak Point No.5: More than a hundred and twenty hosting CP departments to get to know... rapidly
cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 areas inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a fine idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting suppliers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...