How Does cPanel-based Site Hosting Function?
A review by VPS Reseller Hosting Solutions.cPanel-based web hosting or... cPanel hosting?!?
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the current web hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to annual money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-scale marketing segment, which furnishes a great number of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the whole web page hosting marketplace provide absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting price tags are alike. Very similar. Giving those who demand a hosting service almost no other web space hosting platform/CP alternative. Thus, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web space hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than two percent, note that one...
200k "hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet differently branded
The site hosting "variety" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of thousands of different site hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a normal guy who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the different domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your web hosting selection? Is there any web space hosting option you can pick? Sure there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand site hosting firms in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brands all over the world will offer you the very same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed differently, with exactly the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on today's website hosting market is... Period.
The site hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to encounter a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an immense stroke of luck. There is a less than 1 in fifty chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in 50...
The strengths and weaknesses of the cPanel-based website hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied most web site hosting business prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Point Number 1: A moronic domain name folder structure
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are very easy to remove on the hosting server, because they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how terrific cPanel's domain folder system is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)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)
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 becoming baffled? We categorically are!
Downside Number 2: The very same email folder structure
The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Making the very same mistake twice?!? The admin chaps firmly fortify their belief in God when coping with the mail folders on the e-mail server, hoping not to mess things up too irretrievably.
Disadvantage No.3: A thorough shortage of domain name manipulation options
Do we have to mention the thorough absence of a modern domain name manipulation platform - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, alter domains' Whois information, shield the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" section at all. That's a considerable predicament. An unforgivable one, we would like to add...
Negative Side No.4: Numerous login locations (minimum 2, max 3)
How about the necessity for an additional login to access the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support administration interface? That's beside the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel site hosting provider. Now and then, based on the billing system (particularly intended for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting service provider is making use of, the eager clients can wind up with two extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain name administration section; 2: the trouble ticket support platform), winding up with a total of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Drawback Number Five: More than 120 site hosting CP menus to learn... swiftly
cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the site hosting Control Panel. It's a wonderful idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better learn them fast... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting corporations:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...