How does cpanel-based site hosting work?
For your information, it's good to know that the majority of the cPanel web site hosting offers on the present web site hosting market are furnished by a quite insignificant business segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) named hosting reseller. Reseller web page hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing segment, which provides an immense amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98% of the hosting offerings on the whole webspace hosting marketplace provide literally the same solution: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Leaving for those who require a top web hosting service practically no other site hosting platform/site hosting CP option. So, there is simply one fact: out of more than 200,000 web page hosting trademarks all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
200k "web site hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The web space hosting "variety" and the webspace hosting "offerings" Google shows to us boil down to just one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web page hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a regular chap who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the site making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domains and sites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any site hosting variant you can choose? Of course there is, today there are more than 200k webspace hosting suppliers in existence. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200k+ different web hosting brand names in the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel CP and platform, branded differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the variety on the present web space hosting market is... Full stop.
The webspace hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple math reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting provider is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than 1 in fifty...
The advantages and disadvantages of the cPanel-based webspace hosting solution
Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and probably answered most site hosting business requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Disadvantage No.1: A foolish domain folder arrangement
If you have two or more domains, however, be very watchful not to remove completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to erase on the hosting server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Decide for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain name 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)
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)
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 undoubtedly are!
Shortcoming Number Two: The very same electronic mail folder structure
The mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chums strongly enhance their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too irretrievably.
Disadvantage No.3: A thorough shortage of domain name administration tools
Do we need to cite the sheer lack of a contemporary domain management GUI - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domain names' Whois information, secure the Whois information, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not offer such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a big inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we want to add...
Predicament Number 4: Numerous user login locations (min 2, max three)
What about the demand for an additional login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain name and tech support management platform? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based web site hosting vendor. Now and then, on the basis of the billing tool (particularly devised for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting company is making use of, the zealous users can end up with two extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (counting cPanel).
Predicament Number Five: 120+ web hosting Control Panel sections to get to know... swiftly
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the web site hosting CP. It's a wonderful idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better memorize them briskly... That's extremely impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based site hosting vendors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one too...