How does cpanel site hosting operate?
For your info, it's useful to know that most of the cPanel website hosting offers on today's web site hosting market are furnished by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to yearly money flow) named reseller hosting. Reseller website hosting is a kind of a small marketing segment, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing absolutely the same solutions: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the site hosting offers on the entire web hosting market supply the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel-based web page hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other web page hosting platform/Control Panel alternative. So, there is merely a single fact: out of more than 200k hosting brands worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2, note that one...
200k "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The website hosting "diversity" and the hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to just one solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting brand names. Imagine you are simply an ordinary fellow who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and online portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any website hosting option you can opt for? Sure there is, nowadays there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique hosting brands worldwide will offer you literally the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with absolutely the same price tags! WOW! That's how vast the assortment on the present hosting market is... Period.
The web space hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple mathematics demonstrates that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...
The strong and weak points of the cPanel-based website hosting solution
Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and perhaps satisfied most web site hosting business prerequisites. In brief, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain name to host. But, if you have more domains...
Negative Point Number 1: A ludicrous domain folder setup
If you have two or more domain names, however, be very watchful not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each subsequent hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are quite easy to remove on the server, because they all are located into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Verify for yourself how great 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)
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 disorientated? We surely are!
Weakness Number Two: The very same email folder configuration
The e-mail folder configuration on the web server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin blokes strongly fortify their belief in God when coping with the e-mail folders on the electronic mail server, hoping not to botch things up too seriously.
Disadvantage Number 3: An absolute shortage of domain administration interfaces
Do we need to point out the complete lack of a modern domain name administration interface - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois details, protect the Whois details, modify/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not include such a "modern" interface at all. That's a mammoth disadvantage. An unforgettable one, we want to add...
Downside Number Four: Multiple user login locations (minimum two, max 3)
What about the necessity for an extra login to utilize the billing, domain name and technical support administration user interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel site hosting company. Sometimes, on the basis of the invoicing transaction platform (particularly conceived for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting vendor is making use of, the zealous users can wind up with two additional login places (1: the billing/domain administration GUI; 2: the ticket support GUI), winding up with an aggregate of three login places (counting cPanel).
Predicament Number 5: 120+ web space hosting Control Panel menus to get familiar with... quickly
cPanel presents for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the hosting CP. It's a superb idea to grasp each one of them. And you'd better get to know them rapidly... That's inordinately impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due veneration, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting vendors:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...