How does cpanel-based website hosting work?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offers on the current web site hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insignificant business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offers on the whole web space hosting market supply the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web site hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
200,000 "webspace hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
The site hosting "variety" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web site hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an average person who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website development processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting alternative you can settle on? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200k website hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web space hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day hosting marketplace is... Period.
The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably covered most web hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Problem Number 1: A stupid domain folder system
If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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 amazing cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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 growing disorientated? We absolutely are!
Shortcoming Number 2: The very same email folder arrangement
The e-mail folder arrangement on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly enhance their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too fatally.
Negative Aspect Number Three: A thorough deficiency of domain management options
Do we need to cite the complete shortage of a modern domain management platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" section at all. That's a mammoth downside. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...
Problem Number Four: Many login places (min two, max three)
What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration section? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based webspace hosting firm. At times, based on the invoicing platform (especially made for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the zealous customers can end up with two extra login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support software platform), winding up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Shortcoming Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP areas to become acquainted with... swiftly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to become acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better grasp them promptly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...