How does cpanel-based site hosting function?
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on today's web hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size business niche, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offers on the entire site hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web page hosting CP choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "web hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The web site hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web site hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a normal person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different website hosting brand names in the world will give you literally the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, named in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present-day site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The web site hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a big strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps answered most web site hosting market requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Drawback Number One: A moronic domain folder setup
If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely cautious not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to remove on the server, because 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 located 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 wonderful cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)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 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)
Are you becoming nonplussed? We certainly are!
Negative Sign Number Two: The same electronic mail folder arrangement
The mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly enhance their faith in God when managing the email folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too irretrievably.
Downside Number 3: A complete shortage of domain management menus
Do we have to mention the utter absence of a modern domain administration tool - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois info, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a gigantic drawback. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...
Negative Side Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max three)
How about the need for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web hosting supplier. At times, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (particularly built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the earnest clients can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain administration software; 2: the ticket support section), winding up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Drawback Number 5: More than 120 webspace hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... swiftly
cPanel offers to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better memorize them fast... That's extremely insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting corporations:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...