How does cpanel-based site hosting operate?
For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel webspace hosting offers on the present-day hosting market are generated by a quite unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web page hosting is a sort of a small-sized business niche, which provides a huge quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole web space hosting marketplace provide the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based site hosting prices are similar. Very identical. Giving those who demand a top web hosting service practically no other hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "web space hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The web hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Assume you are just an ordinary guy who's not very well aware of (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the web site hosting platforms, which in fact power the respective domains and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting option you can pick? Of course there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 hosting vendors in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these more than two hundred thousand different site hosting brand names in the world will offer you the very same cPanel website hosting Control Panel and platform, branded in a different way, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the assortment on the present site hosting market is... Period.
The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a gigantic stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps met most web page hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Shortcoming Number One: A foolish domain folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain name folder system 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 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 nonplussed? We surely are!
Weak Side No.2: The very same electronic mail folder system
The mail folder structure on the web hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly strengthen their belief in God when coping with the electronic mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to muck things up too harshly.
Negative Aspect Number 3: A thorough shortage of domain name management sections
Do we have to refer to the total deficiency of a contemporary domain name manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, alter domains' Whois information, secure the Whois information, change/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not offer such a "modern" tool at all. That's a vast problem. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...
Weakness Number Four: Numerous login places (min 2, max 3)
How about the need for another login to utilize the invoicing, domain and technical support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based site hosting vendor. Now and then, depending on the invoicing transaction system (principally built for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the eager clients can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing/domain management GUI; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), ending up with a total of 3 user login places (counting cPanel).
Weak Side Number 5: More than 120 hosting CP departments to pick up... swiftly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better get familiar with them promptly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting companies:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...