How does cpanel-based hosting work?
For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present-day webspace hosting market are provided by a very insignificant business niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing niche, which generates a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet supplying exactly the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire web page hosting marketplace supply strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web page hosting price tags are identical. Very identical. Giving those who require a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. Thus, there is merely a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...
200k "hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The webspace hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are just a normal person who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your hosting pick? Is there any web site hosting variant you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ unique hosting brands worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel web page hosting CP and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the current hosting market is... Period.
The web space hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math demonstrates that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a great stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based web site hosting solution
Let's not be pitiless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and presumably fulfilled most web space hosting market demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the job for you if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Point No.1: A foolish domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be very cautious not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known 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 erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Observe for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name 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 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 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 name)
Are you becoming confused? We undeniably are!
Negative Point Number 2: The very same mail folder structure
The email folder structure on the server is strictly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly enhance their belief in God when managing the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too badly.
Negative Aspect Number 3: A total shortage of domain name administration user interfaces
Do we have to mention the sheer lack of a modern domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, alter domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois information, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not have such a "contemporary" tool at all. That's a mammoth drawback. An inexcusable one, we wish to add...
Drawback No.4: Numerous login places (minimum two, maximum 3)
How about the need for an extra login to make use of the invoice transaction, domain name and tech support administration software solution? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web site hosting corporation. At times, on the basis of the billing system (especially built for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the enthusiastic customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing/domain name management software solution; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with an aggregate of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Negative Aspect No.5: 120+ webspace hosting CP departments to get acquainted with... briskly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the hosting Control Panel. It's a glorious idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them quickly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting suppliers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...