How does cpanel site hosting operate?
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on today's webspace hosting market are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-scale business segment, which generates an enormous number of different web hosting brand names, yet providing strictly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web hosting offerings on the whole website hosting market furnish the very same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/Control Panel option. So, there is merely one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "web page hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting trademarked names. Assume you are only an ordinary person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any webspace hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brands all over the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and presumably satisfied all site hosting industry requirements. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Aspect Number One: A stupid domain name folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra attentive not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are placed 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how good cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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 growing bewildered? We absolutely are!
Disadvantage No.2: The very same email folder arrangement
The email folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly fortify their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too seriously.
Negative Sign No.3: A sheer lack of domain name manipulation interfaces
Do we need to mention the complete deficiency of a modern domain management GUI - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we want to point out...
Disadvantage Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum 2, max 3)
What about the demand for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management system? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting firm. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing platform (particularly developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the ardent clients can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain management system; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).
Shortcoming Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to learn... briskly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting distributors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...