How does cpanel-based hosting work?
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the present site hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business niche (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which generates an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying one and the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire web space hosting market supply exactly the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/site hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...
200,000 "web space hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
The web site hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an average fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site creation processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, today there are more than 200k hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different webspace hosting brand names around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the current web hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps covered most webspace hosting business demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Predicament Number 1: A laughable domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how marvelous 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)
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)
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 name)
Are you growing bewildered? We certainly are!
Shortcoming Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder setup
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly reinforce their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.
Predicament No.3: An absolute shortage of domain name administration sections
Do we need to point out the absolute shortage of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a considerable weakness. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...
Negative Point Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, maximum three)
How about the demand for another login to use the billing, domain and technical support management menu? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web page hosting distributor. Now and then, depending on the billing platform (especially designed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the devoted clients can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Weakness Number Five: 120+ web page hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... rapidly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web space hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting vendors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...