How does cpanel-based hosting operate?
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present-day web site hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale business niche, which provides a big amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing absolutely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/web page hosting CP choice. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "website hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The webspace hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google presents to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a normal person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation processes and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting decision? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand hosting corporations in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web space hosting brands worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel website hosting CP and platform, named in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the present-day website hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web space hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably met all web hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Point Number One: A moronic domain name folder setup
If you have two or more domains, however, be very attentive not to delete completely 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 web server, because they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, 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 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 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)
Are you becoming confused? We positively are!
Drawback Number Two: The very same mail folder structure
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin blokes strongly fortify their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to muck things up too harshly.
Predicament No.3: An utter shortage of domain manipulation GUIs
Do we need to refer to the entire shortage of a contemporary domain name administration menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, change/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an enormous disadvantage. An unpardonable one, we would like to add...
Weakness Number 4: Multiple user login locations (min two, maximum 3)
What about the demand for an additional login to make use of the billing, domain name and tech support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web space hosting supplier. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoice transaction system (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the keen users can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Aspect Number 5: More than 120 web hosting Control Panel areas to memorize... promptly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a great idea to get acquainted with each one of them. And you'd better memorize them promptly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting suppliers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...