How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel webspace hosting offers on the contemporary website hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small marketing niche, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: mainly 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 hosting marketplace supply one and the very same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/web page hosting CP choice. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k webspace hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
The web site hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Assume you are only an ordinary person who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the site making processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting variant you can decide upon? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web site hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique hosting brands all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present-day web site hosting market is... Period.
The website hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a colossal stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in 50...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel website hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly satisfied all website hosting industry prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Shortcoming Number 1: A moronic domain folder system
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the web server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed 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. Examine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 name)
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 becoming nonplussed? We definitely are!
Problem Number 2: The very same mail folder system
The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, hoping not to fuck things up too fatally.
Inconvenience Number Three: A thorough shortage of domain name manipulation GUIs
Do we need to point out the absolute deficiency of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" menu at all. That's a considerable downside. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...
Negative Aspect No.4: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)
What about the need for an extra login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting distributor. Now and then, based on the invoicing system (especially invented for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the zealous customers can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration tool; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (including cPanel).
Weakness Number Five: 120+ hosting CP departments to pick up... fast
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's inordinately arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based webspace hosting corporations:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...