How does cpanel-based hosting operate?
For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based hosting offers on the present-day web page hosting marketplace are furnished by a very insignificant business segment (as far as annual money flow is concerned) known as reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a kind of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a big number of different web hosting brands, yet offering precisely the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offers on the entire web site hosting market provide precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting prices are alike. Very similar. Giving those who need a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand website hosting brand names worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "web site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The web site hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us boil down to just one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting brand names. Assume you are simply an ordinary bloke who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the website making processes and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web space hosting option you can choose? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than 200,000 web space hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different site hosting brand names worldwide will give you strictly the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the assortment on the contemporary web page hosting market is... Period.
The web space hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple math demonstrates that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel web site hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps covered all site hosting industry demands. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Inconvenience No.1: A foolish domain folder structure
If you have 2 or more domains, though, be ultra watchful not to remove entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain folder setup is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is situated)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)
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 becoming confused? We undoubtedly are!
Weak Side Number 2: The same email folder system
The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Making the same error twice?!? The sysadmin boys firmly reinforce their belief in God when dealing with the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to mess things up too fatally.
Predicament No.3: An entire deficiency of domain manipulation tools
Do we need to point out the entire absence of a contemporary domain manipulation menu - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a colossal problem. An unforgivable one, we wish to add...
Negative Sign Number Four: Numerous user login locations (minimum 2, maximum three)
How about the demand for an extra login to utilize the invoicing, domain and tech support management software platform? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel hosting firm. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoicing tool (principally made for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting provider is utilizing, the earnest users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration software platform; 2: the ticket support user interface), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Problem No.5: More than 120 site hosting CP departments to get familiar with... swiftly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ departments inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's very insolent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting service providers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...