How does cpanel-based hosting function?
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based site hosting offerings on the contemporary web site hosting market are supplied by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which generates an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet supplying the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web space hosting offerings on the entire web site hosting marketplace furnish absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/CP alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The web page hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an average person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200k web hosting corporations out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the variety on the contemporary web hosting market is... Period.
The web site hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably answered most web site hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Aspect No.1: An imbecilic domain folder setup
If you have two or more domains, though, be very watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next 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 erase on the server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name 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)
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 certainly are!
Shortcoming Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder setup
The email folder arrangement on the web server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly fortify their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too badly.
Disadvantage No.3: A sheer lack of domain administration tools
Do we need to mention the utter absence of a contemporary domain administration user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, change/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" GUI at all. That's an immense drawback. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...
Inconvenience Number 4: Numerous user login places (min two, max 3)
How about the demand for an additional login to access the billing, domain name and tech support management software solution? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel webspace hosting vendor. At times, depending on the billing transaction system (especially developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is availing of, the keen users can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing/domain administration software; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).
Shortcoming Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting CP sections to learn... fast
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the CP. It's a superb idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting vendors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...