How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?
For your information, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web hosting offers on today's web hosting marketplace are generated by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller site hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which supplies an immense amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying literally the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the site hosting offerings on the whole site hosting market provide literally the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other webspace hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel option. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "web site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The site hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Assume you are merely a normal guy who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting option you can select? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200k hosting firms out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique web page hosting brands in the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the current web site hosting market is... Full stop.
The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and probably satisfied most hosting business preconditions. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Side Number 1: A laughable domain folder configuration
If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely watchful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the hosting server, because 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 name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain 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 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 perplexed? We unquestionably are!
Drawback Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder structure
The mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly increase their belief in God when managing the electronic mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too seriously.
Predicament No.3: An entire absence of domain administration interfaces
Do we need to refer to the absolute lack of a contemporary domain management user interface - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois details, protect the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a considerable inconvenience. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...
Weak Side No.4: Multiple login locations (minimum two, max three)
How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain and tech support management software platform? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web site hosting distributor. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing system (particularly built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is utilizing, the enthusiastic customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).
Inconvenience Number 5: 120+ Control Panel departments to pick up... fast
cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web site hosting CP. It's a remarkable idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting corporations:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...