How does cpanel web site hosting operate?
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offerings on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace are supplied by a very unsubstantial business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller web site hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which provides an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing exactly the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole site hosting marketplace supply one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are alike. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other website hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web space hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, note that one...
200,000 "web hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely named
The hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an average person who's not very familiar with (as most of us) with the website making procedures and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting decision? Is there any web page hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k website hosting vendors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different website hosting brands all over the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel webspace hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and possibly satisfied most webspace hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Aspect No.1: An idiotic domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extra attentive not to erase fully 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 domains are quite simple to remove on the web server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Discover for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder system 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)
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 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 getting baffled? We absolutely are!
Weakness Number Two: The very same mail folder configuration
The email folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too gravely.
Inconvenience Number 3: A thorough shortage of domain management user interfaces
Do we need to bring up the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain name administration platform - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois details, shield the Whois info, alter/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a major inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...
Inconvenience Number Four: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max three)
What about the need for another login to utilize the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web hosting company. At times, depending on the billing platform (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting vendor is utilizing, the avid users can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration GUI; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Sign Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty web site hosting CP departments to grasp... quickly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ areas inside the CP. It's a terrific idea to get acquainted with each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's quite impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting firms:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...