How does cpanel-based hosting operate?
For your information, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the current hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-sized business niche, which furnishes a vast amount of different web hosting brands, yet offering the very same services: chiefly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting market offer the same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are identical. Quite identical. Giving those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is merely one single fact: out of more than 200,000 hosting brand names around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "web page hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly labeled
The hosting "diversity" and the web space hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are just an ordinary guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the website making processes and the hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and sites . Are you ready to make your hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting option you can settle on? Sure there is, these days there are more than 200,000 web site hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different site hosting brands around the world will offer you literally the same cPanel web site hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present-day web page hosting market is... Period.
The web page hosting LOTTO we are all paricipating in
Simple arithmetic demonstrates that to select a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a huge stroke of fortune. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a phenomenon like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel web hosting solution
Let's not be harsh with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably met most web space hosting business requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have only a single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Sign Number One: An idiotic domain folder setup
If you have two or more domains, though, be extremely careful 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 remove on the hosting server, since they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to delete the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how wonderful cPanel's domain folder arrangement 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)
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 bewildered? We surely are!
Negative Sign No.2: The same e-mail folder configuration
The mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly reinforce their faith in God when handling the email folders on the email server, praying not to fuck things up too irreparably.
Negative Side Number Three: An utter absence of domain management interfaces
Do we have to refer to the entire shortage of a modern domain administration user interface - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domains, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois info, edit/set up name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" section at all. That's an enormous inconvenience. An inexcusable one, we want to add...
Predicament Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum 2, max 3)
What about the need for another login to utilize the billing transaction, domain and technical support administration tool? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based webspace hosting company. At times, depending on the invoicing transaction tool (especially tailored for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the keen customers can wind up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing/domain administration menu; 2: the trouble ticket support user interface), ending up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Point Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web space hosting CP areas to grasp... promptly
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 areas inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each of them. And you'd better pick them up rapidly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web page hosting corporations:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one as well...