How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?
For your info, it's good to be aware that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the present web page hosting market are generated by a very inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller webspace hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which supplies an immense quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing literally the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offerings on the entire web space hosting marketplace provide exactly the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based website hosting price tags are similar. Very identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/webspace hosting CP choice. So, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 website hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
200k "webspace hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The web hosting "diversity" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Suppose you are only an ordinary guy who's not very familiar with (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the web space hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and websites . Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, at the moment there are more than 200k web site hosting service providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ unique webspace hosting brands all over the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel web site hosting CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how immense the variety on today's web space hosting marketplace is... Period.
The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is a great strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web space hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly met all web site hosting industry demands. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Shortcoming Number 1: An idiotic domain folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very watchful not to delete 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). The files of the add-on domain names are very easy to delete on the web hosting server, since they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular 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 erase the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder setup 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)
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)
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 bewildered? We definitely are!
Downside No.2: The same e-mail folder arrangement
The mail folder arrangement on the web server is literally the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin chums strongly reinforce their faith in God when handling the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to screw things up too severely.
Inconvenience No.3: A sheer shortage of domain management tools
Do we need to point out the complete lack of a contemporary domain name management user interface - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois details, protect the Whois information, change/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "modern" menu at all. That's a considerable downside. An unjustifiable one, we wish to point out...
Weakness Number 4: Multiple login places (min two, maximum three)
How about the necessity for an additional login to use the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration section? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web site hosting firm. Sometimes, depending on the billing transaction system (especially created for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting corporation is using, the zealous clients can end up with 2 extra login places (1: the billing/domain management user interface; 2: the trouble ticket support system), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Predicament Number Five: 120+ website hosting Control Panel sections to pick up... promptly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than a hundred and twenty departments inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a terrific idea to grasp each and every one of them. And you'd better become familiar with them quickly... That's extremely impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting corporations:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one as well...