How does cpanel site hosting function?
For your information, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel-based web hosting offers on the present-day webspace hosting marketplace are furnished by a quite inconsiderable business segment (as far as yearly cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies a vast quantity of different web hosting brand names, yet furnishing the very same thing: mostly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the whole site hosting marketplace supply absolutely the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel web site hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who need a top web hosting service practically no other web space hosting platform/web site hosting Control Panel choice. Thus, there is just a single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web space hosting trademarks around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mark that one...
Two hundred thousand "web hosting service providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google reveals to all of us boil down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting brand names. Assume you are just a normal person who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the web page hosting platforms, which actually power the various domains and web sites . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any site hosting variant you can pick? Sure there is, as of now there are more than 200,000 web page hosting corporations in existence. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web space hosting brands worldwide will give you the same cPanel CP and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the diversity on the present-day site hosting marketplace is... Full stop.
The webspace hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple mathematics shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting firm is a mammoth stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak sides of the cPanel web page hosting solution
Let's not be unfair with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modern and possibly fulfilled all website hosting market prerequisites. To cut a long story short, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Weakness No.1: An idiotic domain folder system
If you have two or more domain names, though, be extremely careful not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call 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 simple to remove on the web hosting server, because they all are placed 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 try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. See for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)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)
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 growing baffled? We certainly are!
Downside Number Two: The same mail folder setup
The e-mail folder structure on the server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin blokes firmly enhance their faith in God when tackling the mail folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to screw things up too seriously.
Predicament Number Three: An entire lack of domain name management user interfaces
Do we need to point out the thorough shortage of a modern domain administration interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domains, edit domains' Whois information, shield the Whois info, modify/set up nameservers (DNS) and DNS records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a vast shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...
Weak Side Number Four: Numerous login places (minimum 2, maximum three)
What about the need for an extra login to avail of the invoicing, domain and technical support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already supplied by the cPanel web space hosting service provider. Occasionally, depending on the billing transaction system (particularly built for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the avid clients can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoicing transaction/domain name administration user interface; 2: the ticket support software), winding up with a total of three login locations (counting cPanel).
Negative Point Number 5: More than 120 webspace hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... briskly
cPanel presents to your attention 120+ departments inside the website hosting CP. It's a glorious idea to memorize each one of them. And you'd better learn them swiftly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel webspace hosting vendors:
As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...