How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a big quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying one and the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the entire website hosting marketplace supply one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other website hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet differently labeled
The website hosting "variety" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an ordinary guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site development procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any hosting variant you can settle on? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand web page hosting distributors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique site hosting brands worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a gigantic stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably satisfied most web site hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Shortcoming No.1: An imbecilic domain folder configuration
If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra attentive not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located 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 excellent cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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)
Are you getting bewildered? We certainly are!
Negative Aspect Number 2: The same email folder system
The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps strongly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the e-mail server, praying not to mess things up too irreparably.
Disadvantage No.3: A thorough shortage of domain administration tools
Do we need to cite the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation user interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois info, protect the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" section at all. That's a huge predicament. An unjustifiable one, we would like to add...
Weakness Number 4: Many user login locations (minimum 2, maximum 3)
How about the necessity for an extra login to access the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web site hosting provider. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction tool (principally intended for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is availing of, the avid clients can wind up with 2 additional logins (1: the billing/domain administration user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of three user login places (counting cPanel).
Shortcoming No.5: More than 120 Control Panel menus to become acquainted with... quickly
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better pick them up swiftly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting service providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...