How does cpanel-based web hosting work?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the current hosting market are furnished by a quite insubstantial business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller web space hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which generates an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet furnishing one and the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the web page hosting offers on the whole site hosting marketplace furnish literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/site hosting CP choice. So, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, note that one...
200,000 "web page hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named
The web page hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are only a normal guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site creation procedures and the site hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and online portals . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any hosting alternative you can decide upon? Sure there is, now there are more than 200,000 web hosting companies out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web space hosting brands worldwide will offer you the same cPanel web page hosting Control Panel and platform, labeled differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the contemporary hosting marketplace is... Period.
The hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably met most web page hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domains...
Inconvenience No.1: A laughable domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to delete 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 name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite simple to remove on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder arrangement 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)
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 becoming confused? We absolutely are!
Weakness Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder configuration
The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin guys strongly enhance their belief in God when dealing with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too harshly.
Weak Side Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain name management options
Do we need to point out the entire lack of a modern domain name management tool - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois info, protect the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a big inconvenience. An unforgivable one, we wish to point out...
Downside Number Four: Many login locations (min two, maximum 3)
How about the demand for an extra login to avail of the billing, domain name and tech support administration software platform? That's beside the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel web page hosting distributor. Now and then, based on the invoicing transaction platform (principally created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the devoted customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the ticket support section), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Negative Aspect Number Five: 120+ web hosting Control Panel menus to become acquainted with... promptly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty areas inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to learn each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them fast... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting companies:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...