How does cpanel-based website hosting work?
For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web space hosting offerings on the present-day web site hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a big number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire hosting market provide one and the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...
200,000 "site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The webspace hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your 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+ different hosting brand names worldwide will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the diversity on the present web page hosting market is... Full stop.
The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that something like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web page hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled most hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Point Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra careful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to remove on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder system 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 becoming disorientated? We categorically are!
Downside Number 2: The same electronic mail folder system
The email folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys firmly increase their belief in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to muck things up too seriously.
Weak Side No.3: A thorough deficiency of domain administration interfaces
Do we need to refer to the sheer shortage of a modern domain administration tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a gigantic downside. An unforgettable one, we want to add...
Weak Point No.4: Multiple user login locations (min two, max three)
What about the demand for an extra login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain and technical support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web space hosting provider. At times, depending on the invoice transaction tool (principally invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the ardent users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration software solution; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Disadvantage No.5: More than a hundred and twenty site hosting CP menus to become familiar with... fast
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 areas inside the webspace hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting firms:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...