How does cpanel-based web hosting function?
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the present-day website hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size business segment, which generates an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing absolutely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting marketplace supply precisely the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web site hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, remark that one...
200k "webspace hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The web site hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a regular bloke who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the site creation procedures and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the various domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting option you can opt for? Of course there is, right now there are more than 200,000 web page hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand different web hosting brand names worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel site hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled most hosting business prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Disadvantage Number One: A foolish domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder configuration is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)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)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
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 becoming bewildered? We surely are!
Inconvenience No.2: The same electronic mail folder arrangement
The e-mail folder arrangement on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly fortify their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too irreparably.
Weakness Number 3: An utter shortage of domain name management interfaces
Do we need to bring up the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois info, edit/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not have such a "modern" menu at all. That's an immense shortcoming. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...
Downside No.4: Many login locations (min 2, max three)
How about the necessity for an extra login to make use of the billing, domain name and technical support management platform? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web page hosting service provider. Occasionally, based on the billing system (particularly tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the eager clients can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name administration system; 2: the ticket support system), ending up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).
Disadvantage No.5: More than 120 webspace hosting CP departments to learn... promptly
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's quite impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting companies:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...