How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web site hosting offerings on the current web site hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) called hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing literally the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting marketplace supply precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web page hosting CP option. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting firms", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The web page hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google shows to us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary bloke who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website development procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting variant you can opt for? Sure there is, now there are more than 200k web hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different webspace hosting brand names in the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web space hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the present-day web space hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably met most web site hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Drawback No.1: A foolish domain folder structure
If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely careful not to erase entirely 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 quite easy to delete on the server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder structure 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 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 name)
Are you getting bewildered? We doubtlessly are!
Problem No.2: The same email folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly increase their faith in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.
Negative Side No.3: An absolute deficiency of domain name administration options
Do we need to mention the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois information, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an immense disadvantage. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...
Weakness Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, max 3)
What about the necessity for an additional login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting company. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction tool (principally tailored for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is using, the zealous customers can wind up with two extra logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management user interface; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Shortcoming Number 5: 120+ webspace hosting CP areas to pick up... briskly
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better learn them quickly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting vendors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...