cPanel Hosting Explanation
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based website hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are generated by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which generates a big amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet providing precisely the same solutions: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98 percent of the web hosting offerings on the entire web hosting market supply one and the very same thing: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are alike. Quite identical. Giving those who need a top web hosting service almost no other web hosting platform/website hosting Control Panel alternative. Thus, there is only one fact: out of more than 200,000 web hosting brand names all over the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, remark that one...
Two hundred thousand "website hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet diversely dubbed
The website hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different website hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are only an average chap who's not well aware of (as most of us) with the web page making processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and online portals. Are you ready to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web hosting distributors out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brands around the world will offer you absolutely the same cPanel web hosting CP and platform, named differently, with precisely the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the variety on the present-day website hosting market is... Full stop.
The website hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics reveals that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a great strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel-based website hosting solution
Let's not be severe with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps fulfilled all web hosting market requirements. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have only a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Weak Point No.1: A dumb domain name folder structure
If you have two or more domain names, though, be ultra watchful not to remove fully 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 very simple to remove on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very 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 attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder structure 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 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)
Are you getting bewildered? We clearly are!
Downside No.2: The same electronic mail folder system
The email folder structure on the web server is exactly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly enhance their faith in God when coping with the email folders on the email server, praying not to screw things up too irreparably.
Shortcoming Number 3: A complete deficiency of domain management options
Do we have to point out the entire shortage of a contemporary domain name manipulation tool - a place where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, edit domains' Whois information, secure the Whois details, alter/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not furnish such a "modern" tool at all. That's a mammoth problem. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...
Drawback Number Four: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum three)
How about the need for an extra login to use the billing transaction, domain and tech support administration software? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based website hosting distributor. Now and then, based on the billing system (particularly intended for cPanel only) the cPanel website hosting company is utilizing, the keen clients can wind up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the ticket support menu), winding up with a total of three user login locations (including cPanel).
Disadvantage No.5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP sections to get familiar with... rapidly
cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty menus inside the website hosting Control Panel. It's a fabulous idea to get familiar with each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them rapidly... That's excessively impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting suppliers:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one too...