How does cpanel-based website hosting work?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small business segment, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing the very same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting marketplace furnish one and the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service practically no other web page hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...
Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The site hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a normal guy who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any website hosting variant you can select? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k website hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ different web hosting brands in the world will give you the very same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the current web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps met most web hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Problem No.1: A dumb domain folder arrangement
If you have two or more domain names, though, be very attentive not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed 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. Examine for yourself how excellent 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)
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 puzzled? We positively are!
Negative Aspect Number Two: The very same mail folder arrangement
The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys strongly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to muck things up too gravely.
Weak Side Number 3: A total shortage of domain name management GUIs
Do we have to bring up the thorough shortage of a contemporary domain administration menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" section at all. That's a vast problem. An unpardonable one, we want to add...
Shortcoming Number Four: Many user login locations (min two, maximum 3)
How about the demand for an additional login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain and tech support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based webspace hosting supplier. At times, depending on the billing transaction system (principally meant for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the keen clients can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name management platform; 2: the ticket support menu), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (including cPanel).
Inconvenience Number 5: More than 120 web space hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... fast
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to memorize each of them. And you'd better get familiar with them quickly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting companies:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...