How does cpanel-based hosting work?
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offerings on the current web site hosting marketplace are provided by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small business segment, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet providing literally the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offers on the whole web hosting market furnish precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
200,000 "web space hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
The web hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Assume you are merely an average chap who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web site making procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any site hosting variant you can pick? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present hosting market is... Full stop.
The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled all web site hosting market demands. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Inconvenience No.1: A stupid domain folder structure
If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 growing confused? We doubtlessly are!
Inconvenience Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder setup
The email folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly increase their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too irreparably.
Downside Number Three: A thorough shortage of domain name management sections
Do we have to cite the absolute lack of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a major predicament. An unforgivable one, we want to add...
Drawback No.4: Many user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)
How about the need for an additional login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web page hosting company. Now and then, on the basis of the invoice transaction platform (particularly meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the devoted customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain name management system; 2: the trouble ticket support software), winding up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).
Drawback No.5: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting CP sections to get acquainted with... briskly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the web site hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better learn them promptly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting corporations:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...