How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?
For your information, it's useful to know that the majority of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the present web site hosting market are furnished by a very unsubstantial business niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller web hosting is a type of a small-size business segment, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing strictly the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the web space hosting offerings on the entire webspace hosting marketplace furnish the very same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web space hosting prices are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/web space hosting Control Panel choice. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brands all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than two percent, mark that one...
200k "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely named
The web hosting "variety" and the web space hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to just one and the very same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are merely a normal guy who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting choice? Is there any site hosting option you can select? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web hosting service providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200k+ different hosting brands in the world will offer you precisely the same cPanel webspace hosting CP and platform, branded differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how huge the variety on the present-day webspace hosting market is... Period.
The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic reveals that to chance upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an immense strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in 50...
The pros and cons of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps fulfilled most web hosting market prerequisites. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Drawback Number One: A moronic domain folder system
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be extra watchful not to erase entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located 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. Verify for yourself how fabulous cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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 name)
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 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 undoubtedly are!
Disadvantage No.2: The same mail folder structure
The mail folder configuration on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin boys strongly strengthen their faith in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, hoping not to botch things up too severely.
Inconvenience No.3: A sheer deficiency of domain name management sections
Do we have to bring up the absolute shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation GUI - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois information, protect the Whois information, change/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not contain such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a major weakness. An unforgettable one, we would like to add...
Weak Side Number Four: Many login places (minimum 2, maximum 3)
How about the demand for another login to avail of the invoice transaction, domain and tech support management software solution? That's apart from the cPanel account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel website hosting vendor. At times, based on the invoicing platform (principally built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting supplier is making use of, the earnest customers can wind up with 2 additional login places (1: the billing/domain name management software; 2: the ticket support tool), winding up with an aggregate of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Weak Side Number 5: More than 120 hosting Control Panel departments to pick up... fast
cPanel presents for your consideration more than 120 areas inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a superb idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better grasp them swiftly... That's excessively impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web space hosting companies:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...