How does cpanel-based web hosting work?
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the present-day web site hosting market are supplied by a very unsubstantial marketing niche (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the site hosting offers on the whole hosting market provide absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other webspace hosting platform/web page hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand webspace hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
200k "web page hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
The web space hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an average fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site creation processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web sites . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any hosting option you can select? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 site hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different web page hosting brand names across the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the contemporary hosting market is... Full stop.
The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps answered most website hosting market prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Shortcoming Number One: An idiotic domain folder setup
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extra cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 domains, please. See for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
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 nonplussed? We absolutely are!
Shortcoming No.2: The same mail folder configuration
The mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly strengthen their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.
Weak Point Number 3: A thorough absence of domain manipulation interfaces
Do we have to point out the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" menu at all. That's a great predicament. An unforgivable one, we would like to point out...
Weakness Number Four: Many user login locations (min two, max 3)
What about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support management platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel hosting distributor. Now and then, based on the billing tool (principally developed for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the zealous clients can wind up with 2 additional login locations (1: the invoicing/domain management GUI; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Weak Side Number 5: 120+ web page hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... swiftly
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them rapidly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting distributors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...