How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the current web page hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small-sized marketing niche, which provides a vast amount of different web hosting brand names, yet offering strictly 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 page hosting offers on the entire site hosting market provide precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other web hosting platform/site hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200,000 "web space hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
The site hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a regular guy who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the website creation processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can opt for? Sure there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting providers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names all over the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present web space hosting market is... Full stop.
The website hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably covered most website hosting business preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Sign Number One: A dumb domain folder structure
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to delete fully 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 very easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain folder configuration 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)
Are you getting nonplussed? We undeniably are!
Negative Sign No.2: The same mail folder arrangement
The email folder structure on the hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to fuck things up too harshly.
Negative Sign No.3: An utter deficiency of domain manipulation interfaces
Do we have to cite the total deficiency of a modern domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois details, secure the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" menu at all. That's a major downside. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...
Negative Side Number 4: Numerous login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)
What about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management software solution? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based site hosting provider. At times, based on the billing platform (especially tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the enthusiastic users can wind up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing transaction/domain administration section; 2: the ticket support interface), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Drawback Number Five: 120+ web site hosting CP menus to get to know... swiftly
cPanel presents to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to become acquainted with each of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting suppliers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...