How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel webspace hosting offers on the contemporary webspace hosting market are generated by a quite insignificant marketing segment (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which provides a big number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying exactly the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace provide precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are identical. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
200k "web page hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The web site hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just a normal fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 web space hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique website hosting brand names around the world will offer you the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the present-day web page hosting market is... Full stop.
The web hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple math shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The pluses and minuses 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 probably satisfied all web site hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Aspect No.1: An idiotic domain folder system
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to remove on the hosting server, since they all are set up 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 placed 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. Determine for yourself how terrific 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)
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 name)
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 disorientated? We categorically are!
Negative Sign Number 2: The same email folder system
The e-mail folder configuration on the hosting server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly enhance their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the e-mail server, praying not to screw things up too badly.
Weakness Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain name administration user interfaces
Do we have to cite the absolute shortage of a modern domain name manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" tool at all. That's an enormous downside. An unjustifiable one, we wish to add...
Weakness Number 4: Numerous login locations (min two, maximum 3)
What about the necessity for another login to make use of the billing, domain and technical support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting company. Occasionally, depending on the billing tool (particularly meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is using, the earnest customers can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration system; 2: the ticket support platform), ending up with an aggregate of three login locations (including cPanel).
Weak Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting CP menus to grasp... rapidly
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ areas inside the site hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to pick up each one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's extremely arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting providers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...