How does cpanel-based site hosting function?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on today's hosting market are furnished by a very inconsiderable marketing segment (when it comes to annual cash flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-sized business segment, which provides a big number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing literally the same services: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because at least 98% of the webspace hosting offers on the entire website hosting market provide literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other site hosting platform/web space hosting CP alternative. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "webspace hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely dubbed
The web space hosting "variety" and the web hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a normal fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site development processes and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and online portals . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting alternative you can opt for? Of course there is, these days there are more than two hundred thousand web site hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand unique web page hosting brands around the world will give you exactly the same cPanel web space hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the contemporary web page hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is an immense stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative points of the cPanel website hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps covered all site hosting business requirements. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have just a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Point Number One: A stupid domain folder setup
If you have two or more domains, though, be ultra careful 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). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to erase on the web server, since they all are placed into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain 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. Determine for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder structure 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)
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 getting confused? We undeniably are!
Problem Number Two: The same email folder arrangement
The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly reinforce their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to botch things up too harshly.
Disadvantage Number 3: A complete absence of domain management user interfaces
Do we need to bring up the thorough shortage of a modern domain name manipulation interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois information, protect the Whois info, edit/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not involve such a "modern" menu at all. That's a considerable downside. An unpardonable one, we want to point out...
Weak Point No.4: Numerous login locations (min 2, max 3)
What about the necessity for an additional login to avail of the invoicing, domain and technical support management section? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel webspace hosting corporation. Sometimes, depending on the invoice transaction system (particularly meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting vendor is availing of, the ardent customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the invoicing transaction/domain administration GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support software platform), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Weak Side Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting CP sections to get to know... swiftly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty sections inside the web hosting CP. It's a terrific idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them briskly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting suppliers:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...