How Does cPanel-based Web Hosting Operate?
An article by Linux VPS HostingcPanel-based web site hosting or... cPanel-based web hosting?!?
For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based website hosting offers on the current web space hosting market are supplied by a quite insubstantial business niche (as far as yearly money flow is concerned) known as hosting reseller. Reseller webspace hosting is a kind of a small-scale business segment, which provides an enormous quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing precisely the same thing: chiefly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least 98% of the webspace hosting offerings on the whole web page hosting marketplace offer literally the same thing: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel site hosting price tags are similar. Quite identical. Giving those who require a hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/webspace hosting CP option. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 site hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2%, remark that one...
200,000 "webspace hosting vendors", all cPanel-based, yet differently dubbed
The web site hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different webspace hosting trademarked names. Imagine you are only a normal fellow who's not very well familiar with (as most of us) with the website development processes and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any web page hosting option you can select? Sure there is, now there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting providers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these 200,000+ unique website hosting brand names across the world will offer you strictly the same cPanel hosting Control Panel and platform, dubbed in a different way, with the very same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the diversity on the current web hosting market is... Full stop.
The web page hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to select a non-cPanel based hosting firm is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel webspace hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and probably satisfied most web page hosting industry requirements. To put it briefly, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Shortcoming Number 1: A foolish domain folder system
If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely attentive not to remove completely 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 very easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Check for yourself how great cPanel's domain folder system 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 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 growing baffled? We surely are!
Predicament Number Two: The very same email folder system
The email folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps strongly increase their belief in God when managing the email folders on the mail server, hoping not to bungle things up too gravely.
Disadvantage No.3: An utter deficiency of domain name management options
Do we have to mention the entire absence of a modern domain name administration user interface - a location where you can: register/move/renew/park or manage domains, change domains' Whois details, secure the Whois details, alter/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a major weakness. An unpardonable one, we wish to point out...
Weakness No.4: Many login locations (min 2, max three)
What about the demand for another login to make use of the billing, domain name and tech support management section? That's beside the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel web space hosting vendor. Now and then, depending on the billing transaction system (particularly developed for cPanel solely) the cPanel web hosting service provider is using, the avid clients can end up with 2 extra login locations (1: the billing transaction/domain management software platform; 2: the trouble ticket support GUI), ending up with an aggregate of 3 user login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Aspect Number 5: More than 120 webspace hosting Control Panel menus to get familiar with... briskly
cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty areas inside the hosting CP. It's a marvelous idea to become familiar with each one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's very impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based web page hosting suppliers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...