How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel website hosting offerings on today's web site hosting market are supplied by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies a great quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing the very same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting market provide one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 webspace hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "website hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The web space hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a normal bloke who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting firms out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different web site hosting brand names in the world will give you literally the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled all web page hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Point Number 1: A foolish domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub 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 web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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 becoming perplexed? We certainly are!
Negative Sign Number Two: The same e-mail folder arrangement
The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to mess things up too harshly.
Predicament Number 3: A total shortage of domain name manipulation tools
Do we need to point out the complete shortage of a modern domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a major predicament. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...
Weak Side No.4: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max three)
What about the need for an additional login to access the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting distributor. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction system (principally created for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is availing of, the devoted clients can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration interface; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Weak Point Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web site hosting CP sections to get to know... fast
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web page hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...