How does cpanel-based web site hosting function?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the present hosting marketplace are supplied by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to yearly cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a sort of a small marketing segment, which generates a great quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet providing absolutely the same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole website hosting market offer exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are identical. Very much alike. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...
200k "web hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded
The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to just one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Imagine you are merely an average chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page creation processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the respective domain names and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can pick? Sure there is, today there are more than 200,000 webspace hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different site hosting brands in the world will give you precisely the same cPanel Control Panel and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the assortment on the present webspace hosting market is... Full stop.
The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a huge strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that a thing like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps covered all website hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Downside Number 1: A moronic domain folder structure
If you have two or more domain names, however, be ultra cautious not to erase fully 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 very simple to erase on the hosting server, since they all are located into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed 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. Check for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder configuration is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)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)
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 name)
Are you growing confused? We surely are!
Drawback Number Two: The very same email folder system
The email folder configuration on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly increase their belief in God when dealing with the mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too gravely.
Problem Number 3: A complete absence of domain management menus
Do we have to bring up the thorough absence of a contemporary domain name management platform - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois info, shield the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not supply such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's an enormous disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...
Weakness Number 4: Many login locations (min two, maximum three)
What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the billing transaction, domain name and technical support management user interface? That's aside from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web hosting provider. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction system (principally built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting distributor is utilizing, the enthusiastic customers can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain administration tool; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).
Negative Point Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty hosting CP menus to become acquainted with... fast
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the web space hosting CP. It's a great idea to get familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them fast... That's way too arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel site hosting distributors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...