How does cpanel-based web site hosting work?
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the contemporary web site hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly cash flow) called reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small business niche, which supplies a great amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing precisely the same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the site hosting offers on the whole web page hosting marketplace provide precisely the same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web site hosting price tags are alike. Very identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, mark that one...
200,000 "web page hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting brand names. Suppose you are simply a regular bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the site making processes and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any site hosting option you can decide upon? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting vendors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ unique web site hosting brand names around the world will offer you the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, labeled differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on the present-day web hosting market is... Full stop.
The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting service provider is an enormous stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel webspace hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably met all website hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Disadvantage Number One: A foolish domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be extra cautious not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to erase on the web hosting server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name folder configuration 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 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)
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 nonplussed? We absolutely are!
Negative Side Number Two: The same mail folder setup
The e-mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly enhance their belief in God when managing the email folders on the mail server, praying not to botch things up too fatally.
Shortcoming No.3: A sheer shortage of domain management options
Do we have to cite the complete deficiency of a contemporary domain management platform - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, edit domain names' Whois information, shield the Whois details, modify/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" section at all. That's a big weakness. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...
Inconvenience Number Four: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)
How about the need for an extra login to access the billing transaction, domain name and technical support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based site hosting service provider. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction system (principally designed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting supplier is availing of, the enthusiastic customers can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the invoicing/domain administration system; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Sign No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to get to know... fast
cPanel offers to your attention 120+ sections inside the CP. It's a marvelous idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web space hosting suppliers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...