How Does cPanel-based Hosting Operate?
cPanel web site hosting or... cPanel-based web hosting?!?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel hosting offers on the present-day web page hosting marketplace are furnished by a very inconsiderable business segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a kind of a small-sized marketing segment, which furnishes an immense number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing strictly the same thing: chiefly cPanel hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the webspace hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market furnish exactly the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Very much alike. Leaving for those in need of a website hosting service virtually no other web space hosting platform/CP choice. Thus, there is just one single fact: out of more than 200k site hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
200k "hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly branded
The webspace hosting "diversity" and the webspace hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to just one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the website creation procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any webspace hosting alternative you can choose? Of course there is, now there are more than 200,000 web page hosting suppliers out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique web page hosting brands all over the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, named differently, with strictly the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the variety on the current site hosting market is... Period.
The web site hosting LOTTERY we are all a piece of
Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in 50...
The pluses and minuses of the cPanel-based site hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps covered all website hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Sign No.1: A laughable domain folder arrangement
If you have two or more domains, however, be very watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the web server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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. Discover for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain 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 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 growing puzzled? We absolutely are!
Weak Point Number 2: The same e-mail folder configuration
The e-mail folder structure on the server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly increase their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to mess things up too irreparably.
Downside Number Three: A thorough lack of domain name management options
Do we need to point out the entire shortage of a modern domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domain names, change domain names' Whois info, shield the Whois info, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" user interface at all. That's a huge drawback. An unpardonable one, we would like to point out...
Predicament Number 4: Many login locations (minimum two, maximum three)
How about the need for another login to make use of the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration menu? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web site hosting provider. Sometimes, based on the invoicing transaction platform (principally conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is availing of, the keen customers can end up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing/domain management system; 2: the trouble ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of 3 user login places (including cPanel).
Negative Sign Number Five: More than 120 webspace hosting CP menus to get familiar with... quickly
cPanel presents to your attention more than a hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting CP. It's an excellent idea to get to know each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them quickly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting firms:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...