How does cpanel-based site hosting work?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the contemporary web space hosting market are supplied by a quite insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-size marketing niche, which provides an immense number of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole site hosting marketplace offer strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...
200k "web space hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The site hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an ordinary bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web page hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands all over the world will give you literally the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the contemporary site hosting market is... Period.
The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based website hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled most web site hosting business demands. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Problem Number One: A stupid domain name folder arrangement
If you have two or more domain names, however, be very attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the server, since they all are created 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 name)
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 becoming confused? We absolutely are!
Negative Side No.2: The same e-mail folder structure
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to fuck things up too severely.
Shortcoming Number 3: An utter shortage of domain name manipulation menus
Do we need to point out the total deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" tool at all. That's an enormous inconvenience. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...
Downside No.4: Multiple login locations (min two, max three)
How about the necessity for an extra login to access the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting firm. At times, on the basis of the invoicing platform (principally developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is availing of, the avid clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Problem Number 5: More than a hundred and twenty web space hosting CP sections to pick up... briskly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web space hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better pick them up quickly... That's excessively arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting vendors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...