How does cpanel-based web hosting work?
For your info, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel-based site hosting offers on today's web page hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which supplies a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the web space hosting offers on the whole hosting market offer strictly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are similar. Very similar. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/site hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "web site hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed
The website hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web page hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting companies in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web page hosting brand names across the world will give you precisely the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the diversity on the present hosting market is... Period.
The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple math demonstrates that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based site hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied all web hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Inconvenience Number One: A stupid domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra careful not to erase 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 domains are quite simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain folder structure 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)
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 becoming puzzled? We undeniably are!
Negative Side Number 2: The very same e-mail folder setup
The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly enhance their faith in God when managing the mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to mess things up too fatally.
Weak Point Number 3: A total lack of domain name manipulation user interfaces
Do we need to refer to the utter absence of a modern domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois info, protect the Whois info, alter/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a mammoth downside. An unforgettable one, we wish to add...
Disadvantage Number Four: Numerous user login places (minimum 2, max 3)
How about the necessity for an additional login to access the billing, domain name and tech support administration software solution? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web page hosting service provider. At times, based on the invoice transaction tool (principally meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the keen customers can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoice transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support section), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).
Weak Side No.5: More than one hundred and twenty CP menus to become familiar with... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the web page hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to grasp each of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's very arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting providers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...