How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on today's web page hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing segment, which generates a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet supplying strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the entire site hosting marketplace supply the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is just a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...
200,000 "web space hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The web space hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web hosting brand names. Imagine you are just an ordinary chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the web site hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web pages . Are you ready to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can choose? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different webspace hosting brands all over the world will give you the same cPanel web hosting Control Panel and platform, branded differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the contemporary web page hosting market is... Full stop.
The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps answered all webspace hosting industry prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Point Number 1: A stupid domain folder setup
If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name 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 domains, please. Observe 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 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)
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 growing bewildered? We clearly are!
Negative Aspect No.2: The same email folder setup
The electronic mail folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin boys firmly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too badly.
Negative Sign Number Three: An entire deficiency of domain management sections
Do we have to mention the complete deficiency of a modern domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois information, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" interface at all. That's a huge drawback. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...
Weak Point Number 4: Multiple user login places (min 2, maximum 3)
How about the demand for another login to access the billing transaction, domain name and tech support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel-based site hosting distributor. Now and then, on the basis of the invoicing transaction tool (particularly built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the ardent users can wind up with two additional login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support system), ending up with a total of three user login places (including cPanel).
Weakness Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP sections to become familiar with... fast
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the web space hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to learn each of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's way too insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting companies:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...