How does cpanel-based website hosting work?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on today's web space hosting market are generated by a quite inconsiderable business niche (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing one and the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offerings on the whole web site hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is only one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, mark that one...
200k "webspace hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The site hosting "variety" and the hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an ordinary guy who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the hosting platforms, which in fact power the separate domain names and web portals . Are you ready to make your hosting choice? Is there any hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique webspace hosting brand names around the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the current web page hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a mammoth strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and presumably answered most web space hosting business demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Aspect No.1: A dumb domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be extremely careful not to delete fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web hosting server, since 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder setup 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 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 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 nonplussed? We categorically are!
Negative Aspect Number 2: The very same electronic mail folder configuration
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin boys strongly enhance their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to bungle things up too irretrievably.
Drawback Number 3: An utter deficiency of domain name manipulation GUIs
Do we have to bring up the absolute absence of a contemporary domain manipulation GUI - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "modern" section at all. That's a great predicament. An unjustifiable one, we want to add...
Predicament Number 4: Numerous user login locations (minimum two, maximum three)
How about the need for an extra login to use the billing, domain and tech support management interface? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting company. Now and then, depending on the billing tool (especially invented for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting distributor is making use of, the zealous customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (including cPanel).
Inconvenience No.5: 120+ website hosting Control Panel menus to grasp... rapidly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ departments inside the web site hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them rapidly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting distributors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...