How does cpanel-based web hosting work?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web hosting offerings on the contemporary site hosting marketplace are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) named hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering one and the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offerings on the whole web hosting market supply one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/web page hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "web site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The website hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google presents 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 a regular person who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different site hosting brand names in the world will give you the very same cPanel CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the current web page hosting market is... Period.
The site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly fulfilled most web site hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Shortcoming No.1: A dumb domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be ultra cautious not to remove 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). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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. Determine for yourself how fabulous 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 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 getting perplexed? We absolutely are!
Problem No.2: The very same mail folder structure
The electronic mail folder configuration on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly enhance their faith in God when managing the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too badly.
Negative Point No.3: A thorough lack of domain name management GUIs
Do we have to cite the sheer lack of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a colossal downside. An inexcusable one, we would like to add...
Negative Sign Number Four: Numerous login locations (min two, max three)
What about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoicing, domain and technical support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel site hosting supplier. At times, based on the billing transaction system (particularly developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the eager customers can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain name administration software; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Problem Number Five: 120+ web space hosting Control Panel menus to get familiar with... briskly
cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better get to know them promptly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting firms:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...