How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?
For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the present web page hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the web site hosting offers on the whole web site hosting market offer precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other site hosting platform/web page hosting CP alternative. So, there is only one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mind that one...
200k "site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely branded
The web page hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are just an ordinary guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200k hosting service providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web site hosting brand names worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on today's webspace hosting market is... Period.
The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose 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 occur! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel web hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps covered all web hosting market demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Inconvenience No.1: A dumb domain folder arrangement
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be ultra attentive not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are set up 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. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain name folder setup 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 name)
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 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)
Are you growing nonplussed? We undoubtedly are!
Predicament No.2: The same mail folder structure
The mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly increase their belief in God when handling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too severely.
Weak Point No.3: An utter shortage of domain manipulation sections
Do we have to point out the thorough absence of a modern domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domain names, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" GUI at all. That's a huge downside. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...
Weak Point Number Four: Multiple user login places (minimum two, maximum three)
How about the necessity for an additional login to make use of the billing, domain and technical support management software solution? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based web space hosting distributor. Occasionally, depending on the invoicing transaction platform (principally developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the keen clients can end up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Sign No.5: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP menus to pick up... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting distributors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...