How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web page hosting offerings on today's webspace hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small marketing niche, which furnishes an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing one and the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offers on the whole web page hosting marketplace provide the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/web space hosting CP alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
200,000 "hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a normal chap who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting option you can select? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web space hosting brand names across the world will give you the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on today's hosting market is... Full stop.
The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably fulfilled all web hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Predicament No.1: A stupid domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely attentive not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Verify for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder setup 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)
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 name)
Are you becoming disorientated? We absolutely are!
Downside Number 2: The same email folder structure
The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly strengthen their faith in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too seriously.
Negative Side Number Three: An absolute absence of domain name management GUIs
Do we have to refer to the entire lack of a contemporary domain name management tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a gigantic problem. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...
Negative Point Number 4: Many login locations (min 2, maximum three)
What about the need for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and tech support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web space hosting corporation. Occasionally, based on the invoicing system (principally conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the eager customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain name management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Negative Aspect Number Five: 120+ website hosting CP sections to grasp... fast
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's inordinately impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting vendors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...