How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offerings on today's webspace hosting marketplace are provided by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting market furnish one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web site hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...
200k "hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web space hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal chap who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any web site hosting variant you can select? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different hosting brand names around the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the contemporary web space hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel web page hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps satisfied all site hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Sign No.1: A dumb domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra cautious 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to erase on the web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 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 getting baffled? We undoubtedly are!
Weak Point Number Two: The same email folder structure
The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to bungle things up too fatally.
Negative Sign No.3: An entire shortage of domain name administration user interfaces
Do we have to refer to the total lack of a modern domain administration user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a huge predicament. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...
Weak Point Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum 2, max 3)
How about the need for another login to use the billing, domain name and technical support administration software? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the invoicing tool (especially developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the earnest users can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Shortcoming Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel areas to learn... swiftly
cPanel presents to your attention more than 120 departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to memorize each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting suppliers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...