How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web space hosting offers on today's web page hosting market are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which supplies an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting market supply literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/web space hosting CP option. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web page hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...
200,000 "webspace hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The web page hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Assume you are only an average person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web page creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand different hosting brands around the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, named differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present website hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps satisfied all website hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Predicament Number 1: A moronic domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder configuration 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 name)
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 getting puzzled? We surely are!
Predicament No.2: The very same electronic mail folder arrangement
The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too irretrievably.
Shortcoming No.3: A total shortage of domain administration sections
Do we have to cite the total shortage of a contemporary domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" menu at all. That's a great problem. An unforgivable one, we want to add...
Disadvantage Number Four: Many user login locations (min two, maximum 3)
How about the demand for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management software platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting vendor. Now and then, based on the invoice transaction system (principally developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the avid customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration system; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Weakness Number 5: 120+ hosting Control Panel departments to get acquainted with... swiftly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ departments inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them promptly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting firms:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...