How does cpanel-based website hosting operate?
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web page hosting offerings on the present web page hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting marketplace furnish one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web space hosting CP option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "web space hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a regular person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting variant you can settle on? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200k web hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different site hosting brand names across the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the current web site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple math reveals that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and presumably fulfilled all webspace hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Inconvenience Number 1: An imbecilic domain name folder arrangement
If you have two or more domains, however, be very cautious not to remove completely 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 name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. See for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder setup 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 becoming disorientated? We surely are!
Negative Sign No.2: The same electronic mail folder structure
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums firmly strengthen their faith in God when managing the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too seriously.
Negative Aspect No.3: A sheer lack of domain name management tools
Do we have to cite the thorough lack of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois information, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" tool at all. That's a mammoth predicament. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...
Predicament No.4: Many user login places (min two, maximum three)
How about the necessity for an extra login to access the invoicing transaction, domain name and technical support administration tool? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web page hosting service provider. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (particularly developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the ardent customers can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the billing/domain name administration platform; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Side Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty site hosting Control Panel menus to become acquainted with... rapidly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ menus inside the web site hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better pick them up fast... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...