How does cpanel-based site hosting work?
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the contemporary web space hosting market are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing niche, which generates an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing strictly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offers on the whole web space hosting market supply one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/website hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
200,000 "web space hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
The hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply a regular person who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site making procedures and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web page hosting service providers out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brands across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the current web site hosting market is... Period.
The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably met all web space hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Shortcoming Number One: A stupid domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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. Examine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 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 getting confused? We undoubtedly are!
Negative Point No.2: The same electronic mail folder configuration
The email folder configuration on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to screw things up too gravely.
Predicament Number 3: An entire absence of domain management GUIs
Do we need to cite the sheer absence of a contemporary domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" section at all. That's a colossal predicament. An inexcusable one, we want to point out...
Inconvenience No.4: Many login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)
How about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management tool? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web site hosting provider. Now and then, on the basis of the billing system (especially intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the avid users can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain name management tool; 2: the trouble ticket support section), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).
Problem Number Five: More than 120 web page hosting CP areas to get familiar with... rapidly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 sections inside the CP. It's a marvelous idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web hosting corporations:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...