How does cpanel-based hosting operate?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel web space hosting offers on the present web page hosting market are provided by a quite insignificant marketing niche (when it comes to annual capital flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a type of a small business niche, which furnishes an enormous amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the hosting offers on the entire web site hosting marketplace supply strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel webspace hosting price tags are alike. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service practically no other website hosting platform/hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "web space hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The web site hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google reveals to us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different site hosting brand names. Imagine you are only an average chap who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the web site creation procedures and the web hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any site hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand hosting providers in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ different site hosting brand names worldwide will give you exactly the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, dubbed in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the current webspace hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting distributor is a huge 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 strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and perhaps answered most hosting market preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weak Point Number 1: A stupid domain name folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the web hosting server, because they all are placed 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 placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain 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 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 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 getting baffled? We undeniably are!
Weak Side Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder configuration
The mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly reinforce their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the email server, praying not to botch things up too severely.
Weakness Number Three: An entire lack of domain name administration tools
Do we need to cite the sheer lack of a modern domain administration menu - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois details, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not include such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a great disadvantage. An inexcusable one, we would like to point out...
Negative Aspect Number 4: Multiple login locations (min two, max three)
How about the demand for another login to avail of the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration user interface? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel website hosting corporation. At times, depending on the invoicing system (especially invented for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the devoted customers can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain name administration platform; 2: the trouble ticket support software), ending up with a total of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).
Problem No.5: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel sections to memorize... rapidly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web page hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to get familiar with each of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them briskly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web site hosting companies:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...